What is the Pharmacy Curriculum Outcomes Assessment® (PCOA®)?
The PCOA is a 220 item multiple-choice paper-and-pencil measurement tool that has been developed by NABP to assess curriculum outcomes across time. The PCOA is intended to be a valuable and integral component of the process that schools use to assess their curricula. The data obtained from the PCOA will provide participating colleges and schools of pharmacy with detailed feedback related to the subject matter covered throughout the professional pharmacy curriculum. Data can also be used to provide detailed information to individual students on their strengths and weaknesses in regard to the curriculum. Because the PCOA is administered on an annual basis, resulting data are both formative and summative in measuring student progress and allow comparisons to be made to a national reference group.
