Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1

• Professional conduct, behaviour, and attitudes in all academic and laboratory settings are applied.
• Optimal expertise and knowledge in fundamental and core modules are demonstrated.
• Ability to demonstrate independence while ensuring safety of self and others is shown.
• Awareness of the consequences of his or her decisions and actions is demonstrated.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2

• Techniques, processes, systems, or technologies are applied and transferred in an original, creative, and innovative way appropriate to specialized and complex contexts within the health sciences environment and develop new methods, where appropriate.
• Specialist knowledge and theory are applied in critically reflexive, creative, and novel ways to address complex practical and theoretical problems within the health sciences environment.
• Competence in all applications is demonstrated.
• In-service education and training in dental technology is conducted.
• Management, education, and research skills are applied during independent practice.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3

• An understanding of the management, structure, and function of dental technology in South Africa is demonstrated.
• Operational and practical supervision within a dental technology environment is provided.
• Skills and capacity for quality assurance in a dental technology environment are shown.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4

• Research skills are developed, and research in dental technology and in a multidisciplinary health sector environment is conducted.
• Knowledge of and engagement in an area at the forefront of the field is demonstrated.
• New research initiatives are conceptualized, and new knowledge or practice in dental technology is created.
• Research leadership is demonstrated, and management of research and research development is conducted in an ethical and accountable manner in Health Sciences.

Integrated Assessment

• Exit Level Outcomes will be addressed in the assessments.
• Whenever possible, the assessment of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values shown in the qualification will be integrated.
• Assessment of fundamentals will be integrated as far as possible with other aspects - e.g. theory and integrated learning.
• A variety of assessment methods will be used; however, the assessment tools and activities will be appropriate to the context in which the student will work after graduating.
• The term 'Integrated Assessment' refers to the theoretical and practical components being assessed together.
• During integrated assessments, the assessor will make use of a range of formative and summative assessment tools and methods - where formative feedback will be provided to the student to enable students to improve their work prior to the summative assessment taking place.
• Continuous assessment will be provided and may include some of the following:
  • Portfolios
  • Simulations
  • Workplace assessments and practical workbooks/logbooks
  • Written assignments
  • Written tests
  • Case studies and case presentations
  • Problem-based assessments
  • Peer group projects and assignments
  • Oral presentations
  • Competency assessment of clinical skills
  • Face-to-face contact with students
• Learners will be expected to participate in experiential training to gain an overall understanding of the working environment.