Interpreting of  Tests Scores Is Made? As a measurement tool, a test results in a score—a number. A number, however, has no intrinsic meaning and must be compared with something that has meaning to interpret its significance. For a test score to be useful for making decisions about the test, the teacher must interpret the … Read more

Issues Related To Testing, Grading and Other Evaluation Concepts Social, Ethical and Legal Issues Educational testing and assessment have grown in use and importance for students in general and nursing students in particular over the last decade. One only has to read the newspapers and watch television to appreciate the prevalence of testing and assessment … Read more

What is Clinical Evaluation In Nursing Education 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 variety of methods for collecting data on student performance. Clinical evaluation methods are strategies for assessing learning outcomes in clinical practice. That … Read more

Clinical Practice and Clinical Evaluation What is Clinical Evaluation Nursing as a practice discipline requires development of higher level cognitive skills, values, and psychomotor and technological skills for care of patients across settings. Acquisition of knowledge alone is not sufficient; Professional education includes a practice dimension in which students develop competencies for care of patients … Read more

Written Assignments and Clinical Evaluation Assessments of Written Assignments In most nursing courses, students complete some type of written assignment. With these assignments students can develop their critical thinking skills, gain experience with different types of writing, and achieve other outcomes specific to a course. Written assignments with feedback from the teacher help students develop … Read more

What Scoring And Analyzing Tests After administering a test, the teacher’s responsibility is to score it or arrange to have it scored. The teacher then interprets the results and uses these interpretations to make grading, selection, placement, or other decisions. To accurately interpret test scores, however, the teacher needs to analyze the performance of the … Read more

Elements of Test Construction, Administration and Analysis In addition to the preparation of a test blueprint and the skillful construction of test items that correspond to it, the final appearance of the test and the way in which it is administered can affect the validity of the test results. A haphazard arrangement of test items, … Read more

Context Dependent Item Sets and other Assessment Methods In preparing students to meet the needs of patients within the changing health care system, educators are faced with identifying essential content to teach in the nursing program. Mastery of this knowledge alone, however, is not enough. Students also need to develop cognitive skills for processing and … Read more

Short Answer (Fill in the Blank) and Essay With constructed-response items, the test-taker supplies an answer rather than selecting from options already provided. Because students supply the answers, this type of item reduces the chance of guessing. Constructed-response items include short answer and essay. Short-answer items can be answered by a word, phrase, or number. … Read more