Journal of dental education
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This study examines how teaching performance is evaluated in U. S. dental schools. Respondents to the mailed survey were dental school deans. ⋯ The majority of schools provide a program to enhance teaching skills; responsibility for the program varied from the department chairperson to the individual faculty member. More than half of the deans indicated that research productivity can "outweigh" teaching skills in promotion and tenure decisions. The results indicate that dental school deans expect excellence in teaching, but leave doubt as to how faculty members are to gain expertise in this realm of their profession.