All teachers at some time or another need to measure and evaluate
learning. The teacher may write test items, prepare tests and analyze their results,
develop rating scales and clinical evaluation methods, and plan other strategies
for assessing learning in the classroom, clinical practice, online and distance
education courses, and other settings. Often teachers are not prepared to carry
out these tasks as part of their instructional role. This second edition of Evaluation
and Testing in Nursing Education is a resource for teachers in nursing education
programs and health care agencies and a textbook for graduate students preparing
for teaching roles, for nurses in clinical practice who teach others and are
responsible for evaluating their learning and performance, and for other health
professionals involved in evaluation, measurement, and testing. While the examples
of test items and other types of evaluation methods provided in this book
are nursing-oriented, they are easily adapted to assessment and evaluation in
other health fields.