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July
2007
Let’s
Discuss Your Assessment Strategy (What’s That?
You Don’t Have One?)
Recently I co-presented with Greg Sapnar,
Associate Director of Metrics and Adaptation at Bristol-Myers
Squibb, at the 2007 Society of Pharmaceutical and Biotech
Trainers (SPBT) Conference. We had the benefit of an
audience response system in the room so we polled the
audience on a few topics:
73% answered yes
to the question “Do you have positive or negative
consequences related to test results?”
59% answered yes
to the question “Do you certify your representatives
on their required job knowledge?”
56% answered
no and 11% answered unsure to the question “Do
you have a formal system of remediation for students
who fail a test?”
61% answered no
to the question “Do you retest knowledge periodically?”
Everyone in the
room had a fixed passing test score for all their
tests (the average was around 83%)
17% “had
no clue” how passing scores were set
Admittedly, this was a small, non-scientific
survey but these results are unfortunately typical of
what I find when I speak on assessment topics. >>
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