Rate My Professor Andrea Rung

Dr. Andrea Rung serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Griffith University, located on the Gold Coast campus. She is part of the Dentistry and Oral Health discipline, where she contributes to teaching and research in dental education. Rung's academic interests focus on higher education, dentistry, and assessment, as indicated on her Google Scholar profile. She convenes several key courses, including Clinical Dental Sciences 1 (2050DOH), Pre-Clinical Dental Sciences 3 (2801DOH), and others within the Bachelor of Dental Health Science and Master of Dentistry programs. Her teaching emphasizes practical skills in restorative and clinical dentistry.

Rung has made notable contributions to dental education research through peer-reviewed publications. Key works include '3D Surface Analysis as a Method to Evaluate Progress of Students' Restorative Skills Over Time' (2025, co-authored with Andrew Cameron, Jing Sun, and Roy George), which explores advanced evaluation techniques for student performance in restorative procedures. In 2022, she published 'A novel scale to measure students' perceptions of exemplars in a dental school' with Michelle Hood and Roy George in the European Journal of Dental Education. Other significant papers are 'A systematic literature review of assessment feedback in preclinical dental education' (2021, with Roy George), 'Investigating the Use of Smartphones for Learning Purposes by Australian Dental Students' (2014), and 'Dental Students' Attitudes Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Treatment Planning Tool' (2011, with Lea Foster, Kathy Knox, and Nikos Mattheos), where she is listed with a B.D.Sc. Her research has garnered 658 citations on Google Scholar, reflecting impact in areas like feedback mechanisms, technology integration, and student skill assessment in preclinical training. She holds ORCID iD 0000-0003-3469-3629.