You are a member of a 3-person educational team that has developed a competency test that uses 50 multiple choice test questions to determine the knowledge and skill level of learners. After 30 learners have completed the competency test, the team conducted an item analysis. From the results, there are 10 questions that are identified as being problematic. One of the educators wants to consider each of these questions individually to see if one or more of the questions should be removed from the...

You are part of an educational unit of four educators. The item analysis of the recent examination is being reviewed. During this process, one test question in particular upsets you. From the item analysis, you can see that the question has a discrimination index of .15 and several of the upper-level learners selected the same incorrect distractor. You believe that the distractor is worded poorly and is confusing to these students. You want to remove the item and give the students who missed it ...

The Test Construction is due on Sunday of Week 3 at 11:59 p.m. MT. The guidelines and rubric are listed below as well as in the downloadable document. Test Construction Guidelines and Rubric Download Test Construction Guidelines and Rubric Test Blueprint Template (Links to an external site.) Tips on Test Item Writing (Links to an external site.) Purpose This assignment is designed to provide the MSN student the opportunity to apply Bloom's revised taxonomy in the development of a test blu...

A peer nurse educator states that he would never use a test blueprint, because it makes the test too easy for the learner because the learner would know how many questions would come from each content area. Decide if you agree or disagree with this statement, and then present a rationale for your viewpoint regarding test blueprints. Solution: I disagree with a peer nurse educator, considering the many benefits of using a test blueprint. Before setting any test questions, educators should devel...

You have worked long hours in the design of creative learning activities for a course. The course has been presented for 3 years without any significant change. You have now been assigned a novice educator who is very excited and is presenting novel thoughts regarding the course. This will require significant change in the course. Discuss your initial reaction. How can a collaborative relationship between you (the course leader for 3 years) and the novice educator be achieved in order to provide...

A novice educator is talking with her mentor. During the conversation, the novice educator expresses great pride in the fact that all learners passed the required course with a perfect score. How would the mentor respond to this information with application of course evaluation techniques? This question can be discussed from either the viewpoint of nurse professional development or an academic setting. Solution: As the mentor, I would first congratulate the educator for the perfect scores that...

The Self-Assessment of Core Competencies is due on Sunday of Week 1 at 11:59 p.m. MT. The guidelines and rubric are listed below as well as in the downloadable document. Self-Assessment Guidelines and Rubric (Links to an external site.) Self-Assessment Worksheet (Links to an external site.) (you will add to this worksheet again in Week 8) Self-Assessment Worksheet EXAMPLE (Links to an external site.) Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to complete a self-assessment of the NLN Nu...

A novice educator expresses to the mentor that he is disappointed to be appointed to the Evaluation Committee because the work never leads to any changes. What would be an appropriate conversation between the mentor and novice educator? Solution: The appropriate conversation between the mentor and the novice educator would be to discuss the reasons behind the educator’s belief that the evaluation committee does not bring any change, the importance of the evaluation committee, and strategies th...

One goal of an educational program is to foster cultural humility. As the educator, you presented a required educational program/unit on this topic; however, in the learners' evaluations, there was significant dissatisfaction with the activity. Identify two quantitative ways that assessment/evaluation could occur to identify what went wrong and how to improve the program. Identify one qualitative way that assessment and evaluation techniques could identify what went wrong and how to improve the ...

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