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 -- publisher's description.

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Assessment and the educational process -- Qualities of effective assessment procedures: validity, reliability and usability -- Planning for testing -- True-false and matching -- Multiple-choice and multiple response -- Short-answer (fill-in-the-blank) and essay -- Assessment of higher level learning -- Test construction and preparation of students for NCLEX and certification examinations -- Assessment of written assignments -- Assembling, administering and scoring tests -- Testing and evaluation in online courses and programs -- Test and item analysis: interpreting results -- Clinical evaluation process -- Clinical evaluation methods -- Simulation and objective structured clinical examination for assessment -- Social, ethical, and legal issues -- Grading -- Program evaluation and accreditation.