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Educational testing validity and reliability in pharmacy and medical education literature
Matthew J Hoover1, Rose Jung2, David M Jacobs3
1College of Pharmacy, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio ; Cleveland Clinic Marymount Hospital, Garfield Heights, Ohio ; University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toledo, Ohio.
Objectives:
To evaluate and compare the reliability and validity of educational testing reported in pharmacy education journals to medical education literature.
Methods:
Descriptions of validity evidence sources (content, construct, criterion, and reliability) were extracted from articles that reported educational testing of learners' knowledge, skills, and/or abilities. Using educational testing, the findings of 108 pharmacy education articles were compared to the findings of 198 medical education articles.
Results:
For pharmacy educational testing, 14 articles (13%) reported more than 1 validity evidence source while 83 articles (77%) reported 1 validity evidence source and 11 articles (10%) did not have evidence. Among validity evidence sources, content validity was reported most frequently. Compared with pharmacy education literature, more medical education articles reported both validity and reliability (59%; p<0.001).
Conclusion:
While there were more scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) articles in pharmacy education compared to medical education, validity, and reliability reporting were limited in the pharmacy education literature.
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