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A nurse faculty member on a clinical unit notices that the students are not correctly
documenting their patient's vital signs. He develops a short exercise to be used in that
day's post-conference to practice vital sign documentation. This is an example of which
type of assessment?
Criterion-referenced assessment
Summative assessment
Norm-referenced assessment
Formative assessment
- ANSWER-Answer: D
Rationale: Formative assessment occurs during the assessment period and supports
modification of instruction. Options A, B, and C are not related.
A nursing course is taught by three faculty members who share responsibility for
classroom content, laboratory time, and clinical experiences. When evaluating students
in this course, what must the faculty do to ensure that students are receiving a fair
grade?
Hold weekly meetings of the faculty members to evaluate students.
All students are evaluated by the same faculty member.
Faculty members establish interrater reliability for the course evaluation strategies.
Students are graded solely on a final exam prepared by all faculty in the course.
- ANSWER-Answer: C
Rationale: If there are several faculty members teaching a course and responsible for a
group of students in that course, interrater reliability must be established to maintain
consistency, eliminate bias, and ensure fairness for all students in the class. Options A
, and B are not feasible, and Option D does not address laboratory and clinical
evaluation.
A nursing instructor is reviewing the item analysis for an exam. For one item, the
instructor sees the following analysis:
p Value Answer Response Proportion
1.00
A
B
C
D
0
1.0
0
0
What is the best interpretation of the above results?
The content was well covered in class.
Only the higher-scoring students had the correct answer.
No students selected the distractors.
The item was too difficult and needs revision.
- ANSWER-Answer: C
Rationale: The p value of 1.00 means that no students selected the distractors. Option
A may be true but cannot be assumed from the results. For Option B, students had the
correct answer. In Option D, the item was too easy, not too difficult.
Analyze the above item statistics. Based on this analysis, which statement is correct?
Of the students, 74 percent answered the question correctly.
More high-scoring students selected answer B than low-scoring students.
More low-scoring students selected A than high-scoring students.
This is a highly discriminating item.
- ANSWER-Answer: A