The Nurse Educator’s Guide to Assessing Learning Outcomes

The Nurse Educator’s Guide to Assessing Learning Outcomes, Fourth Edition is a widely-used resource for both faculty and nursing education students that covers the assessment of critical thinking, the development of learning objectives, and the creation of tests, including detailed tips for writing many kinds of individual test items. The book also covers the analysis of test reliability. Examples of effective and ineffective test items are included throughout to help faculty and nurse educators deepen their understanding of how to create effective tests and assess student learning. Key Features: Interpreting test and item analysis data Using Bloom’s taxonomy to increase the cognitive level of items Establishing evidence of reliability and validity Determining the difficulty level of items Developing alternate item types Revising items to increase their cognitive level