THE FUTURE OF DENTAL HYGIENE ASSESSMENT

Upscale Assessment is a copyrighted comprehensive web-based grading software that is Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) complaint.​

The software uses real-time, individual grading that enables students and faculty to track progress daily. Students earn points for performing correct clinical care and assessments, and points are deducted for skills that need improvement.​

The grading follows the Applied Standards for the Clinical Dental Hygiene Practice. However, each school has the flexibility to add, delete, or edit items to be assessed.​ The software was designed to be customizable to fit your program's needs and competencies.

Upscale tracks CODA requirements such as patient experiences, children, adolescents, adults, geriatric patients, special needs, moderate to severe periodontal disease, calculus classifications, ethnicity, student self-assessment, radiographic experiences, health requirements with notifications, and faculty calibration.​

If a student earns over an assigned number of deductions in a Care Standard or Care Substandard category, an email will be sent alerting that remediation is recommended. The remediation thresholds are set by clinic level and can be modified to fit the needs of your program and students. ​

Easy-to-use calculus worksheets, process evaluations, and radiographic grading worksheets are built into the program and can be modified to include your grading rubrics. ​

Per Accreditation Standards, students must be competent in self-assessing. Upscale Assessment allows students to self-assess their performance for each clinic session. Self-assessment can be completed for the entire appointment or portions of the appointment as directed by the faculty. The students can evaluate how their grading compares to the instructors. Students also self-assess their radiographic images within the software and practice radiographic interpretation to prepare for NBDHE.​

Upscale also collects faculty and student information for CODA's annual survey, saves programs money with paperless forms, and greatly reduces facilitator workload time by collecting information using our intuitive software.​

We use a third party to ensure HIPAA and FERPA guidelines are followed to protect the privacy of patients and students.