Situational judgment test in pharmacy education: assessing professionalism capability among students.

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BMC Research Notes Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI:10.1186/s13104-025-07183-6

Narges Fatehi-Firouzabadi, Fatemeh Keshmiri

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Abstract

Objective: Situational Judgment tests are recognized as a valid predictor of job performance. In the present study, the students' professionalism capabilities were investigated using the situational judgment test. This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2023-2024. The situational judgment test includes four scenarios in the faculty situation (classroom) and six scenarios in the workplace situation in the field (hospital and urban pharmacy) with the format of "selected-response format" examined. 160 pharmacy students in different academic years participated. The cut-off scorer of situational judgment test was determined using the Cohen method and the norm-reference method of standard-setting.

Results: The results showed that the scores of students in the situational judgment test were reported as 14.13 ± 6.07. According to Cohen's method, the score of 60 pharmacy students (50%) is lower than the cut-off score. The cut-off score based on the norm-reference method of standard-setting showed that 33 students (20.6%) scored below the cut-off score. The results showed that the students who participated in the professionalism course scored an average of 2.62 higher than the students who did not participate in these training courses. (p-value = 0.015). The development of professional education as a longitudinal program in the pharmacy curriculum is suggested.

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情境判断测验在药学教育中的应用：对学生专业能力的评估。

目的：情境判断测试被认为是工作绩效的有效预测因子。本研究采用情境判断测验对大学生的专业能力进行考察。这项横断面研究是在2023-2024年进行的。情境判断测试包括教师情境（课堂）中的4个情境和工作场所情境（医院和城市药房）中的6个情境，测试的格式为“选择-回答格式”。160名不同学年的药学学生参与。情境判断测试的分界点采用Cohen法和标准设定法。结果：学生情境判断测验成绩为14.13±6.07分。根据Cohen的方法，60名药学专业学生（50%）的得分低于分界点。根据标准制定法的分数线，有33名学生（20.6%）得分低于分数线。结果显示，参加过专业培训课程的学生比未参加专业培训课程的学生平均得分高2.62分。（p值= 0.015）。建议在药学课程中发展纵向专业教育。

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