Assessment Methods and Test Development

Assignment Overview: This week’s written assignment will focus on creating test questions. Deliverables and Due Dates: Upload your paper by Sunday night at 11:59 pm Mountain Time.
Assignment Details: Assume you are presenting a 1-2 hour class/lecture on a topic of your choice to be given to a group of nurses or senior level nursing students. The topic must be related to nursing care. In an opening paragraph, provide a description of the content to be covered. Write 3 learning objectives reflecting Blooms taxonomy at the “applying” level or above based on what you want the students to know/be able to do at the end of the class session (number them 1-3). Select your verbs carefully. Be sure you are writing application oriented questions or above.
Write 3 multiple-choice questions, 2 multiple answer/select questions, and one short essay question that
measure these objectives. Number them 1-6. These should be questions that you write yourself, not questions
ou find somewhere. Use your textbooks and/or other sources to learn best practices for test writing. Highlight
the answers (you do not have to answer the essay question).
Consider the following as you write your test questions because you will be plugging this information into your
test blueprint.
Bloom’s Taxonomy Levels (do not use the
“remembering” or “understanding” levels).
 Applying
 Analyzing
 Evaluating
 Creating

NCLEX Categories
 Safe, Effective Care Environment
o Management of Care
o Safety and Infection Control
 Health Promotion & Maintenance
 Psychological Integrity
 Physiological Integrity
o Basic Care & Comfort
o Pharmacological & Parental Therapies
o Reduction of Risk Potential
o Physiological Adaptation

Stage of the Nursing Process
 Assessment
 Diagnosis
 Planning
 Implementation
 Evaluation

QSEN Competencies

Patient centered care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidenced based practice
Quality improvement
Safety
Informatics

Analysis: Complete the test blueprint (see next page) and include it in your paper. When finished, provide a paragraph or two analyzing your questions. For example, do the questions reflect Blooms taxonomy, NCLEX categories, stages of the nursing process, and QSEN competencies? Is anything missing? Write a concluding paragraph about your test writing experience.
Resources: You must include at least four references. Two can include your textbooks and course materials. Two additional scholarly resources from peer reviewed nursing journals must be used.

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