title: Educational testing validity and reliability in pharmacy and medical education literature.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate and compare the reliability and validity of educational testing reported in pharmacy education journals to medical education literature.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptions of validity evidence sources (content, construct, criterion, and reliability) were extracted from articles that reported educational testing of learners' knowledge, skills, and/or abilities. Using educational testing, the findings of 108 pharmacy education articles were compared to the findings of 198 medical education articles.
  
  
  RESULTS
  For pharmacy educational testing, 14 articles (13%) reported more than 1 validity evidence source while 83 articles (77%) reported 1 validity evidence source and 11 articles (10%) did not have evidence. Among validity evidence sources, content validity was reported most frequently. Compared with pharmacy education literature, more medical education articles reported both validity and reliability (59%; p<0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  While there were more scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) articles in pharmacy education compared to medical education, validity, and reliability reporting were limited in the pharmacy education literature.
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio ; Cleveland Clinic Marymount Hospital, Garfield Heights, Ohio ; University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toledo, Ohio.
authors.forename: Matthew J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Hoover
authors.affiliation: University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toledo, Ohio.
authors.forename: Rose
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.affiliation: University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toledo, Ohio ; University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.affiliation: University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toledo, Ohio.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Peeters
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D007858:Learning; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013663:Teaching
keywords: educational testing; medical education; pharmacy education; validity evidence