Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Pharmacy Technician Entry Certificate |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Midpoint Report |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| 1. At the end of the entry-level program, students will be able to: | Engage with co-workers, patients and other healthcare professionals in productive and collaborative way. How can we assess this? can we use the professional behavior tool ? |
| 2. Prioritize workflow while assisting the pharmacist in collecting, organizing, and evaluating information for direct patient care, drug use review, and departmental management. | We assess this in PT 10111, 1192, 1710, 2010 and 2090 . Target is for 80% of students to achieve a score of 75% or better on specified exams and practicals. |
| 4. Apply various professional practice standards necessary to assist the pharmacist in monitoring the practice site for compliance with federal, state and local laws, regulations and professional standards. | We assess this learning outcome in courses PT 1011, 1192, 1710, 1792, 2010, 2092, and 2090. Our goal is for 80% of students to achieve a score of 75% or better on specified exams and practicals. |
| 6. Apply the skills needed to take personal responsibility for assisting the pharmacist in improving the pharmacy care of patients. | We assess this in PT 1192, 1792 and 2092 with clinical evaluation , we do have data to enter for this outcome from clinical. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population or Courses Assessed | Hypothetical Analysis/Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. At the end of the entry-level program, students will be able to: | Final Eval Tool - 1st and 2nd Rotation | PT 2090 | 30 points to address per student- goal is " meets expectations" for 80% of students |
| 2. Prioritize workflow while assisting the pharmacist in collecting, organizing, and evaluating information for direct patient care, drug use review, and departmental management. | Final Eval of Student 1st and 2nd Rotation | PT 2090 | 30 points to address per student- goal is " meets expectations" for 80% of students |
| 4. Apply various professional practice standards necessary to assist the pharmacist in monitoring the practice site for compliance with federal, state and local laws, regulations and professional standards. | Final Evaluation of Student 1st and 2nd Rotation | PT 2090 | 30 points to address per student- goal is " meets expectations" for 80% of students |
| 6. Apply the skills needed to take personal responsibility for assisting the pharmacist in improving the pharmacy care of patients. | Final Evaluation of Student 1st and 2nd Rotation | PT 2090 | 30 points to address per student- goal is " meets expectations" for 80% of students |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. At the end of the entry-level program, students will be able to: | Collected data in PT 2090 for summer cohort. Overall, students either hit " meets expectations " many hit " exceeds expectations". | Support the hypothesis overall, a few data points to reconsider | Students able to acheive " meet expectations" in most of 30 assessment points |
| 2. Prioritize workflow while assisting the pharmacist in collecting, organizing, and evaluating information for direct patient care, drug use review, and departmental management. | Students had opportunity to perform most skills associated with this focus area and learning outcome. achieved " meet or exceeds" in most assessment points | Data points 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 15. 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 26 all are " meet or exceed expectations ". Support hypotheses | Data points 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 15. 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 26 all are " meet or exceed expectations ". |
| 4. Apply various professional practice standards necessary to assist the pharmacist in monitoring the practice site for compliance with federal, state and local laws, regulations and professional standards. | Students were able to acheive a " meets or exceeds" in this outcome , in a summative assessment | data points 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 14, 29 all had " meets or exceed expectations" which relates to the focus area | Students had opportunity to be assessesd in a summative way in PT 2090, assessment points aligned with theme |
| 6. Apply the skills needed to take personal responsibility for assisting the pharmacist in improving the pharmacy care of patients. | Out of 30 data points, students in summer cohort were able to achieve a " meets or exceeds " on all assessment | Data points 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 21, 22, 24, 29 | students had opportunity to achieve each data point in a summatve evaluation and achieved minimum threshold |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
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| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Second Round Results | Intepretation of Results, Pre- and Post-Change | Follow up questions, possible next steps |
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Describe any change in student achievement observed as part of this assessment process, and what led to those changes.
Describe long-term changes in the program(s) that the assessment process led to, and what motivated those changes?
What did you learn about the teaching and learning of "Practicing Community" in your programs?
Describe any external factors affecting the program or affecting assessment of the program.