Author: Mary E. McDonald

The Nurse Educator’s Guide to Assessing Learning Outcomes, 2nd Edition guides classroom educators through the process of developing effective classroom exams and individual test items. The revised and updated edition of this award winning text includes new chapters on the language of assessment and assessing critical thinking.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Role of Assessment in Instruction

Chapter 2 The Language of Assessment

Chapter 3 Developing Instructional Objective

Chapter 4 Assessing Critical Thinking

Chapter 5 Implementing Systematic Test Development

Chapter 6 Selected-Response Format: Developing Multiple-Choice Items

Chapter 7 Writing Critical Thinking Multiple-Choice Items

Chapter 8 Selected-Response Format: Developing Short-Answer and Essay Items

Chapter 9 Constructed-Response Format: Developing Short-Answer and Essay Items

Chapter 10 Assembling, Administering and Scoring a Test

Chapter 11 Preparing Students for the Licensure Exam: The Importance of NXLEX

Chapter 12 Establishing Evidence of Reliability and Validity

Chapter 13 Interpreting Test Results

Chapter 14 Laboratory and Clinical Evaluation

Chapter 15 Assigning Grades

Chapter 16 Instituting Item Banking and Test Development Software

©2008, 362 pages.