Continuing Education for Nursing Faculty and Students
A Division of Educational Assessment Strategies, LLC
Fourth Edition Available Now
The Nurse Educator's Guide to Assessing Learning Outcomes, Fourth Edition is a widely-used resource for both faculty and nursing education students that covers the assessment of critical thinking, the development of learning objectives, and the creation of tests, including detailed tips for writing many kinds of individual test items. The book also covers the analysis of test reliability. Examples of effective and ineffective test items are included throughout to help faculty and nurse educators deepen their understanding of how to create effective tests and assess student learning.
Key FeaturesInterpreting test and item analysis data
Using Bloom’s taxonomy to increase the cognitive level of items
Establishing evidence of reliability and validity
Determining the difficulty level of items
Developing alternate item types
Revising items to increase their cognitive level
This book is a must have for any nursing instructor wanting to improve their skills of writing test questions. It is very easy to follow and even offers many helpful tools in the appendix. I highly recommend this to any nursing instructor.
-H. Burch
NCLEX Success Coach
The NCLEX Success Coach series is the only NCLEX test prep series available as an interactive test that contains only critical thinking questions; the same quality of questions that are on the NCLEX. The questions and rationales, written by Mary McDonald, an expert in test development, will help you identify what you do and do not know to guide your preparation for success on both your classroom exams and the NCLEX.
NCLEX Success Coach series includes these alternate format questions in the tests. The questions on the NCLEX are mostly 4-option multiple-choice. But there are also alternate format questions. All questions are scored as either right or wrong.
There is no partial credit. So, for example, you must select all of the correct options and none of the incorrect options on a multiple-response question to receive credit. There is not a set percentage of alternate format items. The questions administered are selected based on the candidate’s ability. The NCLEX Success Coach series includes alternate format items at a variety of difficulty levels.
Remember, the point of the NCLEX is to test critical thinking. If you can think like a nurse, you will pass NCLEX. Don’t worry about mastering a particular format; all of the question types are designed to test your ability to analyze and apply information. However, it does make sense to familiarize yourself with the different formats used on the NCLEX so you will not be surprised in the actual test.
The NCLEX Success Coach Series includes, multiple-response, fill-in- the-blank, chart/exhibit, and graphic option items. Remember, you do not have to master an item format type. You need to master the concepts of safe nursing care and be able to apply your knowledge to clinical situations.