Evaluation and testing in nursing education

The "gold standard" for evaluation and testing in nursing education, this revision helps educators measure and evaluate the level of learning that their students have achieved and presents fundamental concepts of what constitutes reliable tools and rubrics for measuring students' classroom and clinical performance. It describes how to develop a test blueprint and to assemble, administer, write, and score all types of tests and test questions, and analyze tests and test performance for both classroom and clinical evaluation. It includes guidelines for preventing cheating, and for conducting productive posttest discussions. The book offers strategies for evaluating higher cognitive levels of learning and for evaluating written assignments with sample scoring rubrics. The book explores important social, ethical, and legal issues associated with testing and evaluation -- Résumé de l'éditeur.

Index: pages 417-434.

Part 1. Basic concepts of Assessment -- 1. Assessment and the Educational Process -- 2. Qualities of Effective Assessment Procedures -- pt. II Testing and other assessment methods -- 3. Planning for Testing -- 4. True-False and Matching -- 5. Multiple-Choice and Multiple-Response -- 6. Short-Answer (Fill-in-the-Blank) and Essay -- 7. Assessment of Higher Level Learning -- 8. Test Construction and Preparation of Students for Licensure and Certification Examinations -- 9. Assessment of Written Assignments -- pt. III Elements of test construction, administration and analysis -- 10. Assembling and Administering Tests -- 11. Online Testing and Assessment of Learning -- 12. Scoring and Analyzing Tests -- pt. IV Clinical evaluation -- 13. Clinical Evaluation -- 14. Clinical Evaluation Methods -- pt. V Issues related to testing, grading and other evaluation concepts -- 15. Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues -- 16. Interpreting Test Scores -- 17. Grading.

Note continued: 18. Program Assessment -- Appendices -- Appendix A Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education -- Appendix B National League for Nursing Fair Testing Guidelines for Nursing Education -- Appendix C Code of Professional Resp…