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
Multiple Choices and Multiple Responses Let focuses on two other kinds of selected-response items: multiple-choice and multiple-response. Multiple-choice items, which have one correct answer, are used widely in nursing and in other fields. This test-item format includes an incomplete statement or question, followed by a list of options that complete the statement or answer the … Read more
How to Promote Self-Care and Resilience in Nursing Students Self-Care and Nursing Profession Inherently it is the demand of nursing profession that nursing professionals should be high stress bearing, while providing compassionate care in the healthcare systems. The resilience is the crucial need of nursing students to prepared for further roles in professional life. Let’s … Read more
Matching Exercises Test Items In Nursing Education Matching Exercises Matching exercises consist of two parallel columns in which students match terms, phrases, sentences, or numbers from one column to the other. In a matching exercise students identify the one-to-one correspondence between the columns. One column includes a list of premises (for which the match is … Read more
Integrating Technology into Nursing Education and Nursing Informatics How Technology Integrated into Nursing Education and Healthcare As current healthcare is striving for the future nurses to provide high quality patient care, there is need for integration of healthcare education in the latest technology. Definition: The integration of Nursing knowledge, Information sciences and computer technology is … Read more
True-False Test Items There are different ways of classifying types of test items. One way is to group items according to how they are scored—objectively or subjectively. Another way is to group them by the type of response required of the test-taker. Selected-response items require the test-taker to select the correct or best answer from … Read more
Communication and Interpersonal Skills to Nursing Education What Effective Communication and Inter-Personal Skill There is a vital role in effective communication and interpersonal skills that directly impact the patient’s healthcare outcomes. It is strong demand in nursing profession to communicate directly, so it is very essential to learn and develop abilities of best communication skills. … Read more
Preparing Students, Taking Test and Test Anxiety In Nursing Education Preparing Students To Take A Test A teacher-made test usually measures students’ maximum performance rather than their typical performance. For this reason, teachers should create conditions under which students will be able to demonstrate their best possible performance. These conditions include adequate preparation of students … Read more
Balance in Theory and Practical Skills in Nursing Education Nursing Education and Nursing Profession There is a crucial role in nursing education in preparing nursing students or future nursing care providers and professionals while facing complexities of patients. For an effective nursing educational program there should be a delicate balance in the theory knowledge and … Read more