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Pharmacy students' perceptions toward peer assessment and its use in teaching patient presentation skills
- Source :
- Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning, vol 12, iss 2
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- eScholarship, University of California, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background and purposeConducting peer assessment has been associated with positive learning outcomes in higher education. The primary objective was to evaluate pharmacy students' perceptions of using peer assessment as a pedagogical strategy in learning patient presentation skills. Secondary objectives were to determine helpful factors for providing and/or receiving peer assessment and to compare students' perceptions of peer assessment relative to receiving feedback from teaching assistants (TAs).Educational activity and settingPatient presentation skills were taught to third-year pharmacy students in three sessions (session 1: didactic lecture, session 2: faculty-led patient presentation workshops followed by peer assessment, session 3: one-on-one patient presentations to TAs). An anonymous survey instrument consisting of five-point Likert scale, yes/no, and open-ended questions was administered.FindingsA total of 187 students (98%) completed the survey. Peer assessment was perceived as a useful way to obtain feedback on patient presentations (87%). It facilitated higher level thinking and a self-reflection of students' own patient presentations. Most students felt that they received constructive feedback from peers (82%) that helped them improve their patient presentation skills (72%). However, students were more trusting of TAs' skills in assessing patient presentations (76% versus 93%, p
- Subjects :
- 020205 medical informatics
Higher education
Formative Feedback
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education
Pharmacy
02 engineering and technology
Cardiovascular
Session (web analytics)
Peer Group
Likert scale
Education
Peer assessment
Formative assessment
03 medical and health sciences
Presentation
0302 clinical medicine
Clinical Research
Perception
Surveys and Questionnaires
Behavioral and Social Science
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Students
Qualitative Research
media_common
Communication skill
Medical education
Singapore
business.industry
Pedagogy
Students, Pharmacy
Pharmacy skill
Education, Pharmacy
Educational Measurement
business
Psychology
Patient presentation
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning, vol 12, iss 2
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d2580a914680a775ae00b0dc57dd5e92