Application of formative evaluation in the teaching of geriatric pharmacology / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the influence of formative evaluation on the teaching effect of geriatric pharmacology by introducing formative evaluation model into the teaching evaluation system of geriatric pharmacology.Methods:The 78 undergraduates of Batch 2013 clinical medicine from Chongqing Medical University were selected as the control group, and the summative evaluation method was used for evaluation; another 142 clinical medical students of Batch 2014 were set as the experimental group, and the formative evaluation method was adopted for evaluation. The statistical analysis was conducted based on the examination scores at the end of the semester. SPSS 23.0 was used for t-test. Results:The test papers of 142 students in the experimental group and 78 students in the control group were analyzed with full samples. The reliability coefficients of the test papers were all greater than 0.6, close to 0.85, indicating that the test results were reliable. The overall difficulty of the test paper is appropriate, and the discrimination is good. The final score (59.66±13.90) of the students in the experimental class was significantly higher than that of the students in the control class (51.58±14.33), with a statistically significant difference ( t=4.08, P<0.001). Conclusion:The application of formative evaluation in the teaching of geriatric pharmacology can effectively improve students' initiative and improve the quality of teaching.