Establishing A Measurement and Evaluation Laboratory in A Nursing Faculty: A Descriptive Study
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2021
Yazarlar: Fatma ORGUN, Fahriye VATAN, Nilay ÖZKÜTÜK, HALE SEZER, Meltem DURSUN ENGİN
Izmir Democracy University Health Sciences Journal, Diğer Kurumların Hakemli Dergileri, Uluslararası, Scopus, 2021, cilt 4, ss 169-182
Özet
Aim of this study, to establish a measurement and evaluation laboratory of a nursing faculty and evaluate the quality of tests applied as part of the education curriculum as a Descriptive cross-sectional design. A total of 42 tests related to nursing vocational courses and 2,671 test items. The research was conducted in a state university nursing faculty between June 26, 2014 and June 28, 2018. In the first stage, a measurement and evaluation laboratory was established. In the second stage, trainers were trained. In the third stage, the item difficulty and item discrimination indexes of nursing professional tests were determined. Number and percentage distributions and averages were obtained in the analysis of the data. Of all the test items of vocational nursing courses, 40.49% in the 2015-2016 academic year and 38.90% in the 2016-2017 academic year were very easy according to the item difficulty index (0.81-1.00), and 46.83% and 43.56%, respectively had very low item discrimination indexes (0.19 and below). Most of the tests applied in nursing courses were easy, and the discrimination of all tests was very low. Further studies are recommended to investigate the item analysis of multiple-choice questions that measure nursing professional knowledge and item spelling errors.