Questions and CORRECT Answers
NLN Core Competency III: Use Assessment and Evaluation Strategies - CORRECT
ANSWER - Nurse educators use a variety of strategies to assess and evaluate student
learning in classroom, laboratory, and clinical settings, as well as in all domains of learning is
what competency?
Standards - CORRECT ANSWER - rules for the measurement of quality, extent, value,
and quantity
Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER - statements that define the variables to examine in
evaluation of a standard
Progression Policies - CORRECT ANSWER - what must be congruent with the nursing
program goals and institutional standards and must be clearly identified and published?
practice orientation, service orientation, judgement orientation, and constructivist orientation -
CORRECT ANSWER - what are four evaluation philosophies
what evaluation philosophy is reflect in course objectives and performance achieved at the end of
the course, clinical experience, or program is the most important consideration - CORRECT
ANSWER - practice orientation
what evaluation philosophy is based on values and has a global or holistic view of the goals and
includes goals that are integrated into a model of performance that represents the typical or ideal
student - CORRECT ANSWER - service orientation
what evaluation philosophy do instructors view the evaluation process as a means to identify
student strengths and weaknesses in various components of performance? - CORRECT
ANSWER - service orientation
, what evaluation philosophy reflects a focus on the determination of accept-ability of student
performance and the value or grade that should be assigned based on the performance and
instructors assigh a pass/fail grade or letter and numerical grading? - CORRECT
ANSWER - judgement orientation
what evaluation philosophy assigns heaviest consideration to stakeholdrs who will be affected by
the success or failure of the program (employers of the graduates and the recipients of the
graduate's nursing care) and in involves input from patients and staff who contribute to the
assignment of the grade in the clinical setting. - CORRECT ANSWER - constructivist
orientation
identification of learning; dx of problems such as learning needs or deficients in teaching
practices, courses or the curriculum; decision-making related to assignments of grades, tenure,
and promotion; improvement of products; and judgement of effectiveness of student goal
achievement and the meeting or standards and program outcomes - CORRECT
ANSWER - what are the purposes of evaluation
learning while it is occurring; identifies a student's readiness to learn and learning needs;
improve student performance, no final grade and shares evaluation informally - CORRECT
ANSWER - What is Formative evaluation?
level of performance of the student at the end of the course, assigns final grade, makes
judgement if standards and criteria were met - CORRECT ANSWER - What is summative
evaluation?
Logic Model - CORRECT ANSWER - what evaluation model is useful in designing
program evaluations and uses flowcharts and provides inputs and outputs of the program and
provides initial, intermediate, and ultimate outcomes?
Decision-Oriented Models: CIPP (context, input, process, product) - CORRECT
ANSWER - What evaluation method provides information which decisions can be made,
measures strengths and weakness of the gram and identifies target populations and identifies
options?