Case Study: Creighton University achieves mastery-based learning and real-time feedback for safer pharmacy assessments with Questionmark

Creighton University - Customer Case Study

Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions needed to shift from paper-based testing to a competency-based assessment system that provided timely, actionable feedback across varied delivery modes (in-class for up to 100 students, computer-lab sessions, proctored and unproctored online exams, and a 50-student web-assisted pathway). To address this, the school adopted Questionmark’s assessment platform for multiple-choice, numeric, essay and hotspot questions, plus end-of-semester evaluations.

Questionmark enabled randomized question banks, immediate targeted feedback, follow-up diagnostic questions in areas like Pharmacokinetics, and the ability to score “critical errors” that stop an exam and require a retake. As a result, assessments became formative learning tools as well as summative measures: instructors can remediate misconceptions quickly, students get instant corrective feedback (one student reported gaining fluency after repeated practice), and the program helps catch dangerous decimal errors before they become clinical habits.

Creighton University

Phillip Vuchetich

Assistant Professor