The Nurse Educator's Guide to Assessing Learning Outcomes

The Nurse Educator's Guide to Assessing Learning Outcomes is a strong professional development resource for faculty that covers the assessment of critical thinking, learning objectives and outcomes, development of tests, creation of multiple choice items, and analysis of test reliability. There are examples of effective and ineffective test items to help faculty and nurse educators deepen their understanding of how to create tests and how to assess student learning. This new edition addresses the increased pressure that NCLEX and other certification exams are placing on nursing students and faculty. It continues to guide classroom educators through the process of developing effective classroom exams and individual test items.

Chapter1 The Role of Assessment in Instruction
Chapter2 The Language of Assessment
Chapter3 Developing Instructional Objectives
Chapter4 Implementing Systematic Test Development
Chapter5 Selected-Response Format: Developing Multiple Choice Items
Chapter6 Writing Critical Thinking Multiple-Choice Items
Chapter7 Selected-Response Format: Developing True-False and Matching Items
Chapter8 Constructed-Response Format: Developing Short-Answer and Essay Items
Chapter9 Assembling, Administering, and Scoring a Test
Chapter10 Preparing Students for the Licensure Exam: The Importance of NCLEX
Chapter11 Establishing Evidence of Reliability and Validity
Chapter12 Interpreting Test Results
Chapter13 Laboratory and Clinical Evaluation
Chapter14 Assigning Grades
Chapter15 Instituting Item Banking and Test Development Software