Evaluation and Testing in Nursing Education: Third Edition

by Marilyn H. Oermann PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, Kathleen B. Gaberson PhD, RN, CNOR, CNE, ANEF

Overview

Designated a Doody's Core Title and Essential Purchase!

"Without question, this book should be on every nurse educator's bookshelf, or at least available through the library or nursing program office. Certainly, all graduate students studying to be nurse educators should have a copy."

--Nursing Education Perspectives

"This [third edition] is an invaluable resource for theoretical and practical application of evaluation and testing of clinical nursing students. Graduate students and veteran nurses preparing for their roles as nurse educators will want to add this book to their library." Score: 93, 4 stars

--Doody's

"This 3rd edition. . . .has again given us philosophical, theoretical and social/ethical frameworks for understanding assessment and measurement, as well as fundamental knowledge to develop evaluation tools for individual students and academic programs."

-Nancy F. Langston, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean and Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing

All teachers need to assess learning. But often, teachers are not well prepared to carry out the tasks related to evaluation and testing. This third edition of Evaluation and Testing in Nursing Education serves as an authoritative resource for teachers in nursing education programs and health care agencies. Graduate students preparing for their roles as nurse educators will also want to add this book to their collection.

As an inspiring, award-winning title, this book presents a comprehensive list of all the tools required to measure students' classroom and clinical performance. The newly revised edition sets forth expanded coverage on essential concepts of evaluation, measurement, and testing in nursing education; quality standards of effective measurement instruments; how to write all types of test items and establish clinical performance parameters and benchmarks; and how to evaluate critical thinking in written assignments and clinical performance.

Special features:

• The steps involved in test construction, with guidelines on how to develop test length, test difficulty, item formats, and scoring procedures
• Guidelines for assembling and administering a test, including design rules and suggestions for reproducing the test
• Strategies for writing multiple-choice and multiple-response items
• How to develop test items that prepare students for licensure and certification examinations

Like its popular predecessors, this text offers a seamless blending of theoretical and practical insight on evaluation and testing in nursing education, thus serving as an invaluable resource for both educators and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826110626
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	05/18/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, is the Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing at Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina. She is an author or coauthor of 34 books and many articles on evaluation, teaching in nursing, and writing for publication as a nurse educator. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Nurse Educator and past editor of the Journal of Nursing Care Quality, the Annual Review of Nursing Education, and Nurse Author&Editor. Dr. Oermann lectures widely on teaching and evaluation and on writing for publication in nursing.

Kathleen B. Gaberson, PhD, RN, CNOR, CNE, ANEF, is the owner of and principal nursing education consultant for OWK Consulting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has over 35 years of teaching and administrative experience in graduate and undergraduate nursing programs. She is a coauthor of 13 nursing education books and an author or coauthor of numerous articles on nursing education and perioperative nursing topics. Dr. Gaberson presents and consults extensively on assessment and evaluation, clinical teaching, and academic integrity.

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Table of Contents

"Section I: Basic Concepts of Evaluation and Measurement
Chapter 1: Assessment and the Educational Process
Chapter 2: Qualities of Effective Assessment Procedures
Section II: Classroom Testing
Chapter 3: Planning for Classroom Testing
Chapter 4: Selected-Response Test Items: True-False and Matching
Chapter 5: Selected-Response Test Items: Multiple-Choice and Multiple-Response
Chapter 6: Constructed-Response Test Items: Short Answer (Fill-in-the-Blank) and Essay
Chapter 7: Assessment of Higher-Level Learning: Context-Dependent Item Sets and Other Assessment Methods
Chapter 8: Test Construction and Preparation of Students for Licensure and Certification Examinations
Section III - Elements of Test Construction, Administration&Analysis
Chapter 9: Assembling and Administering Tests
Chapter 10: Scoring and Analyzing Tests
Section IV - Written Assignments and Clinical Evaluation
Chapter 11: Assessment of Written Assignments
Chapter 12: Clinical Evaluation
Chapter 13: Clinical Evaluation Methods
Section - Issues Related to Testing, Grading, and other Evaluation Concepts
Chapter 14: Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues
Chapter 15: Interpreting Test Scores
Chapter 16: Grading
Chapter 17: Program Assessment
Appendices
Appendix A Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education
Appendix B Code of Professional Responsibilities in Educational Measurement
Appendix C Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students
Index
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Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Janice K. Warrington, MSNEd, RN (Delaware Technical & Community College)
Description: The third edition of this authoritative resource for educators in nursing education and clinical settings lists all the tools required to measure students' classroom and clinical performance. This revision has expanded coverage of the essential concepts of evaluation, measurement and testing, quality standards of effective instruments, instruction for writing test items, and development of parameters for clinical performance, as well as evaluation of critical thinking in nursing students.
Purpose: The purposes are to describe these concepts and to prepare teachers to carry them out.
Audience: It is intended for educators and graduate nurses preparing to become educators. Dr. Oermann has contributed to nursing education through her many books and articles that guide faculty practice. Dr. Gaberson is a nursing education consultant with over 35 years of teaching experience in graduate and undergraduate programs.
Features: The book provides examples of clinical tools for evaluation with explanations of how to develop and implement them in clinical practice. It also details test construction, with guidelines on how to develop test length, test difficulty, item formats, and scoring procedures as well as strategies for writing multiple-choice and multiple-response items.
Assessment: This is an invaluable resource for theoretical and practical application of evaluation and testing of clinical nursing students. Graduate students and veteran nurses preparing for their roles as nurse educators will want to add this book to their library.

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