Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Dent Educ. 2011 Feb;75(2):131–144.

Table 3.

Internal Consistency (Reliability) for the KACE Knowledge Scale

Subjects Number of
Subjects		 Purpose of Test Cronbach’s
Alpha
1st Year Dental Students 95 1st administration of test-retest
reliability assessment		 0.439
1st Year Dental Students 87 2nd administration of test-retest
reliability assessment		 0.527
2nd Year Dental Students 149 Pre-test before EBP course 0.687
2nd Year Dental Students 152 Post-test after EBP course 0.410
Dental Residents
(postgraduate education)		 29 Pre-test before Research and
EBP course		 0.781
Dental Residents
(postgraduate education)		 28 Post-test after Research and
EBP course		 0.208
Dental School Faculty 60 Baseline assessment prior to
EBP Initiative at UTHSCSA-DS		 0.664