Vyas Deepti, Halilovic Jenana, Kim Myo-Kyoung, Ravnan Marcus C, Rogan Edward L, Galal Suzanne M
University of the Pacific, Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 751 Brookside Road Stockton, CA 95207, USA.
Pharmacy (Basel). 2015 Jun 12;3(2):27-38. doi: 10.3390/pharmacy3020027.
The Accreditation Council of Pharmacy Education (ACPE) has taken a strong stance on assessment in pharmacy education. One available assessment tool is cumulative assessments, which may be administered at various points in the curriculum. This article presents the results of a survey of U.S. schools of pharmacy regarding the use of cumulative assessments within their curriculum. A 20-question survey tool was emailed to 125 schools of pharmacy. A total of 105 out of 125 schools participated (response rate 84%). Of these, 52 schools currently have a cumulative assessment program; 18 have one cumulative exam prior to advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs); 19 have a cumulative exam every didactic year; and seven have accumulative exams every semester, except during APPEs ( = 44). Increased faculty workload emerged as the top challenge faced by schools that have implemented a cumulative assessment program. Eighteen schools indicated that no outcomes are measured to determine the utility of the cumulative assessment. From these results, it appears that almost half of participating U.S. schools have implemented a cumulative assessment plan. However, it is apparent that more research needs to be done to determine which outcomes are expected to improve with the implementation of such an assessment plan.
药学教育认证委员会（ACPE）在药学教育评估方面采取了强硬立场。一种可用的评估工具是累积评估，它可以在课程的不同阶段进行。本文介绍了一项针对美国药学院校在其课程中使用累积评估情况的调查结果。一份包含20个问题的调查工具通过电子邮件发送给了125所药学院校。125所学校中共有105所参与（回复率84%）。其中，52所学校目前有累积评估计划；18所学校在高级药学实践经验（APPEs）之前有一次累积考试；19所学校在每个教学年有一次累积考试；7所学校除了在APPEs期间外，每学期都有累积考试（共44所）。教师工作量增加成为实施累积评估计划的学校面临的首要挑战。18所学校表示没有衡量任何结果来确定累积评估的效用。从这些结果来看，似乎几乎一半的参与调查的美国学校已经实施了累积评估计划。然而，显然需要进行更多研究来确定实施这样一个评估计划预计哪些结果会得到改善。
