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

Table 6.

Internal Consistency for the KACE Confidence Scale

Subjects Number of
Subjects		 Purpose of Test Cronbach’s
Alpha
1st Year Dental Students 92 1st administration of test-retest
reliability assessment		 0.940
1st Year Dental Students 82 2nd administration of test-retest
reliability assessment		 0.931
2nd Year Dental Students 147 Pre-test before EBP course 0.941
2nd Year Dental Students 151 Post-test after EBP course 0.894
Dental Residents
(postgraduate education)		 29 Pre-test before Research and
EBP course		 0.872
Dental Residents
(postgraduate education)		 26 Post-test after Research and
EBP course		 0.922
Dental School Faculty 56 Baseline assessment prior to
EBP Initiative at UTHSCSA-DS		 0.917