Test and Item Analysis: Interpreting Test Results
12 TEST AND ITEM ANALYSIS: INTERPRETING TEST RESULTS After a test is scored, the teacher needs to interpret the results and use these interpretations to make grading, selection, placement, or…
Assessment of Higher Level Learning
7 ASSESSMENT OF HIGHER LEVEL LEARNING In preparing students to meet the needs of patients within the changing healthcare system, educators are faced with identifying essential content to teach in…
Clinical Evaluation Methods
14 CLINICAL EVALUATION METHODS After establishing a framework for evaluating students in clinical practice and exploring one’s own values, attitudes, and biases that may influence evaluation, the teacher identifies a…
Program Evaluation and Accreditation
18 PROGRAM EVALUATION AND ACCREDITATION Program evaluation is the process of judging the worth or value of an educational program. One purpose of program evaluation is to provide data on…
Qualities of Effective Assessment Procedures: Validity, Reliability, and Usability
2 QUALITIES OF EFFECTIVE ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES: VALIDITY, RELIABILITY, AND USABILITY How does a teacher know whether a test or another assessment instrument is good? If assessment results will be used…
Testing and Evaluation in Online Courses and Programs
11 TESTING AND EVALUATION IN ONLINE COURSES AND PROGRAMS Contemporary nursing students expect educational institutions to provide flexible instructional methods that help them balance their academic, employment, family, and personal…
Assembling, Administering, and Scoring Tests
10 ASSEMBLING, ADMINISTERING, AND SCORING TESTS In addition to the preparation of a test blueprint and the skillful construction of test items that correspond to it, the final appearance of…
Short-Answer (Fill-in-the-Blank) and Essay
6 SHORT-ANSWER (FILL-IN-THE-BLANK) AND ESSAY Short-answer and essay questions are examples of constructed-response items. With these items, the test-taker supplies an answer rather than selecting from options already provided. Because…
Assessment and the Educational Process
1 ASSESSMENT AND THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS In all areas of nursing education and practice, assessment is important to obtain information about student learning, evaluate competencies and clinical performance, and arrive…
