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AI-Assisted Rubric-Based Essay Grading in Dental Hygiene Education: A retrospective observational study.

Journal of dental hygiene : JDH · Routh CD, Halpin R, Holland JN, Patel T · 2026-10-01

Researchers compared how consistently an AI system graded reflective essays from dental hygiene students against faculty assessments using a standardised rubric. The AI graded essays rapidly and reliably, but assigned significantly lower scores than faculty and showed different scoring patterns across rubric domains.

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