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That's a wrap: Longitudinal exam reflections for pharmacy student self-awareness
Catherine Eichler Short1, Emily Frederick1, Sarah Raake1
1College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Sullivan University, 2100 Gardiner Ln, Louisville, KY 40205, United States of America.
Introduction:
Exam wrappers are a metacognitive tool that provides a framework for students to practice reflection on their assessment process and performance. The purpose of this study was to explore changes in pharmacy students' self-awareness, confidence, and exam performance longitudinally with the use of an exam wrapper process within a course sequence.
Methods:
Pharmacy students enrolled in a pharmacotherapeutics course complete an exam wrapper as a survey series with each exam. This multi-part survey asks students to predict their exam score, provide baseline information such as time spent studying, and reflect on exam results and confidence in each topic on the exam. Correlational analysis of predicted to actual exam scores was used, alongside an analysis of confidence rankings within topics to examine students' self-awareness and predictive confidence over time.
Results:
Students' self-awareness predictions of exam scores before and after taking the exam showed minimal difference between the two predictions; however, both time points had positive correlation to the actual exam score, with correlations ranging between rs(30) = 0.564-0.826, p < .001. Similarly, students' confidence in their performance on exam topics positively aligned with their actual performance on those topics.
Conclusion:
Results indicate students' awareness of knowledge being aligned with performance. In turn, course faculty are granted a view into students' self-awareness and anticipation of performance.
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