How Pharmacy Analytics Software Helps Map COEPA Competencies and Improve NAPLEX Outcomes

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As pharmacy education shifts toward competency-based frameworks, academic institutions face the challenge of systematically aligning student performance with curricular expectations and licensure demands. The integration of pharmacy analytics software into educational practice provides a data-driven mechanism for ensuring that graduates are prepared for the evolving landscape of patient-centered care, professional collaboration, and national licensure standards.
This article explores how pharmacy analytics software for higher education—specifically platforms like Enflux with its CompetencyGenie™ tool, AI-powered solution for category tagging,—supports the rigorous demands of AACP Curriculum Outcomes and Entrustable Professional Activities (COEPA) competencies, enhances The North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination® (NAPLEX®) Competency readiness, and meets the expectations of ACPE Standards 2025.

Competency-based pharmacy education and the role of learning analytics

Contemporary pharmacy programs are increasingly structured around competency-based pharmacy education, a model that demands transparent alignment between curriculum, assessment, and student outcomes. At the heart of this shift are the COEPA, which articulate the domains of performance expected of entry-level pharmacists.
However, operationalizing COEPA across diverse courses, assessments, and student pathways requires more than intent—it requires infrastructure. This is where pharmacy education learning analytics tools play a transformative role.
Learning analytics platforms enable programs to:
  • Tag assessments with COEPA-aligned competencies at both the domain and subdomain level.
  • Map assessments and instructional content to ACPE Standards 2025, the NAPLEX blueprint, and program-level outcomes.
  • Identify areas of strength and weakness across the pharmacy curriculum mapping process.

AI-driven exam tagging across multiple competency frameworks

Assessment alignment is no longer a one-dimensional task. Faculty must often tag individual exam items across overlapping frameworks:
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To support this complexity, tools like CompetencyGenie™ apply natural language processing to exam item stems, suggesting alignments across these frameworks. This eliminates the burden of manual tagging while retaining faculty oversight.

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Improving NAPLEX readiness with pharmacy learning analytics

The predictive capabilities of pharmacy learning analytics extend beyond tagging. These platforms provide a longitudinal view of student performance, allowing programs to anticipate outcomes and intervene early.
Key functionalities include:
  • Predictive modeling to identify students at risk of failing the NAPLEX based on historical and cohort data.
  • Targeted remediation plans are derived from analytics dashboards that connect performance to competency gaps.
  • Content blueprint analysis based on NAPLEX frequency distributions, ensuring instruction and practice exams focus on the most critical areas.
  • Progress monitoring tools that track mastery of individual competencies throughout the didactic and experiential curriculum.
These capabilities not only strengthen individual student outcomes but also contribute to program-level improvements in licensure pass rates.
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The 2025 revision of the ACPE Standards requires greater documentation of outcome-based education and continuous quality improvement. For many institutions, static spreadsheets and disconnected assessment systems are no longer sufficient.
By using dedicated pharmacy school accreditation software, like Enflux, programs can:
  • Generate real-time reports that demonstrate alignment to COEPA and ACPE standards.
  • Visualize curriculum coverage using dynamic real-time dashboards.
  • Document the rationale and evidence behind curricular changes.
  • Facilitate faculty engagement in assessment and curriculum redesign.
The ability to track pharmacy student performance across competency frameworks is particularly critical in preparing for accreditation visits, self-studies, and external reporting.

A strategic imperative for pharmacy education

By implementing advanced pharmacy education assessment tools like Enflux and CompetencyGenie™, institutions can:
  • Achieve transparent pharmacy curriculum mapping across COEPA, NAPLEX, and ACPE standards.
  • Strengthen NAPLEX outcomes through early intervention and focused preparation.
  • Enhance competency-based pharmacy education using real-time performance analytics.
  • Support faculty and leadership in delivering a forward-facing, student-centered educational experience.
In doing so, academic pharmacy programs move from fragmented assessment to data-driven strategic improvement for meeting accreditation standards—empowered by data, grounded in practice, and aligned with the future of the profession.

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