Rubrics of some pharmaceutical skills

摘要

Introduction: Constructivism is a theory about how learners come to know. A constructivist learning environment is defined as a place where learners may work together and support each other as they use variety of tools and information resources in their guided pursuit of learning goals and problem-solving activities. Assessment strongly influences student's learning, including what they study, when they study, how much work they do and the approach they take to their learning. For this reason assessment in the context of constructivism theory is based on performance “performance-based assessment”. Assessment tasks may not be assessing what we think they are assessing, they may be assessing lower-level understanding of the material, and may be failing to assess the stated outcomes of a program of study. To overcome this problem and enhance the quality of assessment, student-centered theory with formative assessment shoulb imployed. One of the most important needed parameters for performance-based assessment is Rubrics. This paper addresses detailed description of the performance tasks of some pharmaceutical skills and rubrics for evaluation of these performance skills.