%0 Journal Article
%T Understanding and Interpreting Pharmacy College Admission Test Scores
%A Don Meagher
%J Archive of "American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education".
%D 2017
%R 10.5688/ajpe81117
%X To fairly and accurately interpret candidates¡¯ Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) scores as listed on their official transcripts, it is important to understand how these scores reflect candidates¡¯ performances on cognitive tasks involving the identification, interpretation, analysis, and evaluation of information assumed to have been covered in pre-pharmacy science, math, and general education coursework. This paper attempts to facilitate this understanding by explaining how candidates¡¯ responses to PCAT test items relate to their scaled scores and percentile ranks and how their writing scores reflect their performance. This paper also suggests how differences between candidates¡¯ PCAT subtest scores may reflect different personal experiences, educational backgrounds, and cognitive abilities
%K admission
%K assessment
%K PCAT
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339584/