ArticleThe Saudi dental journal2025
Rubric system for the evaluation of root canal treatment of single canal tooth performed by preclinical dental students: a cross-sectional study.
Article in The Saudi dental journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Rubric use in dental education: a systematic review of design, implementation, and educational impact.BMC medical education · 2026Pooled it
- Validity and Reliability of Rubrics for Assessment of Preclinical Orthodontic Practices in Dental Students.Dentistry journal · 2026Article
- Assessing the reliability and validity of a standardized rubric for staff evaluation of all-ceramic crown preparations at preclinical setting.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- A comparative study of student performance in all-ceramic crown preparation by clinical-phase students.BMC medical education · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The current study aims to investigate the utilization of an analytic rubric system to assess the performance of preclinical dental students in executing root canal treatment for a single canal maxillary anterior tooth. An analytic rubric comprising three parameters was developed for the preparation of root canal treatment of single canal maxillary anterior tooth by 34 fourth-year dental students (17 males and 17 females) in a preclinical endodontic course. Three examiners independently assessed the students' performance on access cavities, cleaning and shaping, and obturation using a 5-point scale. The total scores were calculated out of 15 points. The reliability of the rubric was confirmed using the ICC (intraclass correlation coefficient). Pearson correlation analysis was employed to measure the association between grade point average (GPA) and gender with the outcome of single canal root canal treatment and overall rubric scores from different examiners. All the students received an excellent (4/5) rating on all parameters, with no significant differences in overall rubric grading between genders (p-value 0.797). The interexaminer reliability assessed using the Kappa test revealed good to high reliability for access cavity and obturation but low reliability for cleaning and shaping. Meanwhile, the intraexaminer reliability evaluated using ICC was excellent, with values of over 0.60 for all the measured parameters. A significant correlation was observed between the GPA and the overall rubric scores from two examiners. This study found no significant gender differences in performance for root canal treatment of a single canal tooth during the preclinical endodontic phase, with an excellent rating achieved for all the parameters.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.