University of Houston, College of Pharmacy, Houston, Texas.
Editorial Board Member, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, Arlington, Virginia.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2020 Sep;84(9):ajpe7949. doi: 10.5688/ajpe7949.
Many variables influence a preceptor's experiential evaluation of a pharmacy learner. However, the impact of social desirability bias, or the measure of an individual's need for social approval, and its impact on the truthfulness of an evaluation is not well understood. Social desirability may present a barrier to students receiving accurate and truthful evaluations. Differences in the effect of social desirability may be seen between full-time faculty and non-faculty preceptors. Colleges of pharmacy should work to support preceptors by providing professional development, standardizing evaluation processes, and ensuring two-way communication. Additionally, a social desirability measure could be used for each preceptor and used by the experiential team to identify preceptors potentially in need of additional development. Future studies should evaluate the effect of social desirability on how preceptors complete evaluations, and propose methods to mitigate this form of bias in the evaluation process.
许多变量会影响导师对药学实习生的经验评估。然而，社会期望偏差（即个人对社会认可的需求程度的衡量）及其对评估真实性的影响尚未得到很好的理解。社会期望偏差可能会成为学生获得准确、真实评估的障碍。全职教师和非教师导师之间可能存在社会期望偏差的影响差异。药学院应通过提供专业发展、规范评估流程以及确保双向沟通来支持导师。此外，可以为每位导师使用社会期望偏差衡量标准，并由实习团队使用该标准来识别可能需要进一步发展的导师。未来的研究应该评估社会期望偏差对导师完成评估的影响，并提出在评估过程中减轻这种偏差形式的方法。
