Manchester University, College of Pharmacy, Natural & Health Sciences, Fort Wayne, Indiana
State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Buffalo, New York.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2023 Apr;87(3):ajpe8932. doi: 10.5688/ajpe8932. Epub 2022 May 10.
With the integration of the affective domain in the pharmacy accreditation standards, it is important for programs to have methods for formatively assessing student competency in these areas. The objective of this study was to examine the validity evidence for a recently developed situational judgment test to assess the affective domain contained in the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) Standards 2016. After pilot testing items in multiple pharmacy schools, a revised 15-item situational judgment test instrument was developed measuring the affective domain as it relates to the pharmacy profession. The resulting Pharmacy Affective Domain Situational Judgment Test (PAD-S) was administered to students at three institutions and internal structure validity evidence was examined using item descriptives, Cronbach alpha, and results from a Rasch measurement model. There were 559 valid responses included in the study. The items were of varying difficulty, with Rasch results confirming the hierarchy of items and suggesting that items were contributing to the measure. The Cronbach alpha was 0.70, suggesting acceptable reliability. However, the reliability items from the Rasch model were lower (0.65 and 0.66), indicating that the ranking of ability was limited, which may be due to fewer items of high difficulty. Overall, the PAD-S performed well as a measure of the affective domain. The PAD-S may be a useful formative instrument as part of a comprehensive assessment plan and may be less resource intensive than other measures.
随着情感领域融入药学认证标准，对于项目来说，拥有形成性评估学生在这些领域能力的方法非常重要。本研究的目的是检验最近开发的一种情景判断测验在评估药学教育认证委员会（ACPE）标准 2016 中包含的情感领域的有效性证据。在多所药学院进行试点测试后，开发了一个经过修订的包含 15 个项目的情景判断测验工具，用于衡量与药学职业相关的情感领域。在三个机构中对学生进行了药房情感领域情景判断测验（PAD-S），并使用项目描述、克朗巴赫α和拉什测量模型的结果来检查内部结构有效性证据。研究共纳入 559 份有效回复。这些项目具有不同的难度，拉什结果证实了项目的层次结构，并表明项目对该测量具有贡献。克朗巴赫α为 0.70，表明可靠性可接受。然而，来自拉什模型的可靠性项目较低（0.65 和 0.66），表明能力排名有限，这可能是由于高难度项目较少。总体而言，PAD-S 在衡量情感领域方面表现良好。PAD-S 可能是综合评估计划的有用形成性工具，并且比其他测量工具资源密集度更低。
