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exam elaborations nurs 4130 nurs 4130 medical surgical nursing 9th edition ignataviciuChapter 1 National League of Nursing Testing Services The NLN provides testing products that can be aligned to your nursing program. Below is a summary of the products offered by the National League of Nursing Testing Services. Links are also provided below for some of the testing products. A. Basic Information ● The tests are mapped to the NCLEX-RN test plan. The proctored assessments will be mapped to the nursing programs curriculum. If a program needs a custom assessment, a fee will be charged for construction of this product. Questions are at application and analysis level, for both the proctored and practice assessment. ● Alternate format questions are not part of the achievement exams. A twenty-five alternate-item RN practice is available for usage, as the alternate items are not contained in the standardized testing presently. ● Testing accommodations can be set up for students requiring extra time. ● There is no online testing strategy tutorial currently in place with the NLN testing program. B. Entrance Assessment harry 11 The NLN testing services provides an entrance assessment exam called PAX which is a pre-admission examination to evaluate the academic ability of students entering a nursing program. The format of the test is either electronic or paper and pencil. This test has demonstrated validity and reliability. The reliability of this test is 0.864. Criterion-related validity for the mean scores of students who completed their first year of nursing program exceeded those students who did not. In each instance, the differences were significant at the 0.001 level for verbal, math, science, and composite scores. C. Nursing Proctored Assessments The NLN provides seventeen achievement exams which are offered online or paper and pencil. They are separated into three categories of foundational science, basic registered nursing, and baccalaureate RN. The first category is foundational science. These tests include: ● Normal nutrition ● Anatomy and physiology ● Microbiology The second category is basic registered nursing. These tests include: ● Basic nursing care 1 ● Basic nursing care 2 ● Nursing of adults 1 ● Nursing care of adults 2 ● Nursing care of children ● Maternity and child health nursing ● Nursing the childbearing family ● Psychiatric mental health nursing ● Pharmacology in clinical nursing The third category is Baccalaureate RN, which includes ● Baccalaureate achievement ● Physical assessment ● Comprehensive psychiatric nursing ● Community health nursing ● Health and illness-adult care harry 12 Seven out of the eighteen proctored assessments were updated in 2010. The tests consist of 125 multiple choice questions. The psychometric for reliability for the achievement assessments range from .78-.91. Scores from the tests are available to students at completion of the computerized test. The student is able to view the number of items for each category that was covered on the test. Each category has a score in percentage for the student. The scores are displayed for the student as the percentage correct and the norm average correct. D. Exam Remediation At completion of the achievement test, the student receives his or her grade with a breakdown of the content. The remediation is not part of the achievement test. The student completes the remediation by clicking on the link. This brings the student to a large document that is in a textbook format. The student is then required to search for the material that needs to be remediated. E. Practice Tests Two practice tests are available for each one of the achievement exams. The practice tests contain fifty multiple choice questions. The practice tests are not proctored and can be completed at home prior to the achievement exams. F. Online Case Studies Presently not available G. Question Bank An online question bank has 4,200 questions that are available to students for four months in their senior nursing course. Comprehensive rationales are included with the online question bank. H. NCLEX Preparation 1. Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) is one of the newest features offered by NLN. No psychometrics is available to date. The CAT is recommended to use as a tool to