NUR 550 Evaluation Strategies and Methods for Nursing Education
This course examines how nursing educators can measure and evaluate the level of learning that their students have achieved and covers fundamental concepts of what constitutes reliable tools and rubrics for measuring students' classroom and clinical performance. Learners will learn 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. Guidelines for preventing cheating, and for conducting productive posttest discussions are also presented. Other topics covered include strategies for evaluating higher cognitive levels of learning and for evaluating written assignments with sample scoring rubrics and important social, ethical, and legal issues associated with testing and evaluation.