Evaluation and Testing in Nursing Education: Fourth Edition

Great book! Have already used it multiple times as a resource for my Nursing Education Practicum clinical log and for other papers that have to be written with references.

This is an excellent textbook for practicing nurse educators and graduate students interested in the faculty role. It provides important information regarding measurement and evaluation of nursing students' performance in the classroom and clinical areas. With the current emphasis on outcomes of education, this text provides excellent guidance on a challenging topic. I strongly recommended it to master's students in a course that I teach on "teaching nursing" and will make it a required textbook in future semesters.

This item was described as used but when it arrived was like new! I received it in just a couple of days and the shipping charge was very fair.

As a new nurse educator, Oermann and Gaberson's Evaluation and Testing in Nursing Education has served as a vital tool in helping me to better understand how to create and evaluate activities applicable to the nursing skills lab, classroom and clinical setting. This book is very easy to read, and I find myself constantly referring to it. I would recommend that ALL nurse educators (both full-time and adjunct faculty) add this to their collection.

This book differs from all others on the subject. Evaluation and testing in nursing education has traditionally been presented as an almost mechanical application of rules. Oermann and Gaberson have written a comprehensive practical guide to the subject that is grounded in a nursing-relevant philosophical and ethical understanding of the legitimate teaching and warranting process of testing and evaluation in nursing education, expressed succinctly in the following: "...professional judgments are 'at the heart of' effective evaluations (p.2-3)" and "(R)egardless of the specificity of the standards and criteria used for evaluating learners, evaluation remains a subjective process (p.3)." Detailed chapters address and illustrate such key topics as writing objective test items, essay test items, written assignments, evaluation of critical thinking, clinical evaluation, scoring and interpreting test scores. Grading is discussed as an issue involving more than merely summing test scores. The often neglected subject of planning, assembling and administering tests is thoroughly discussed. Social, ethical and legal issues are analyzed in relationship to the testing and evaluation functions. The comprehensive scope of this book extends to chapters on program evaluation and total quality management in nursing education. I have used this text in a graduate course for nurse educators and students are as enthusiastic about the book as I am. I highly recommend its use for faculties and nurse educator graduate courses.