NR537 Scholarly Discussions Latest 2021 November (Full)

NR537 Assessment and Evaluation in Education

Week 1 Scholarly Discussion

Evaluating an Educational Program

One goal of an educational program is to foster cultural humility. As the educator, you presented a required educational program/unit on this topic; however, in the learners’ evaluations, there was significant dissatisfaction with the activity. Identify two quantitative ways that assessment/evaluation could occur to identify what went wrong and how to improve the program. Identify one qualitative way that assessment and evaluation techniques could identify what went wrong and how to improve the program. You can focus on learners in either an academic setting or nurse professional development.

 

NR537 Assessment and Evaluation in Education

Week 2 Scholarly Discussion

Course Evaluation

A novice educator is talking with her mentor. During the conversation, the novice educator expresses great pride in the fact that all learners passed the required course with a perfect score. How would the mentor respond to this information with application of course evaluation techniques? This question can be discussed from either the viewpoint of nurse professional development or an academic setting.

 

NR537 Assessment and Evaluation in Education

Week 4 Scholarly Discussion

Item Analysis

You are a member of a 3-person educational team that has developed a competency test that uses 50 multiple choice test questions to determine the knowledge and skill level of learners. After 30 learners have completed the competency test, the team conducted an item analysis. From the results, there are 10 questions that are identified as being problematic. One of the educators wants to consider each of these questions individually to see if one or more of the questions should be removed from the test. However, a second educator is strongly against this by stating, “This is a competency test; it has validity because we wrote it—the test questions should not be altered. The grade on the examination should stand!” The third educator wants to remove the ten questionable items from the test and raise all learners’ scores. For the educator in professional nursing development, this will result in staff nurses who have failed the exam being placed on performance improvement plans and possible dismissal from the agency. For the educator in the academic setting, the learner will not be allowed to progress to the next course, must repeat the current course, and may be dismissed from the academic program.

What quantitative and qualitative information would you provide in order to assist these educators to consider the quality of the test questions?

 

NR537 Assessment and Evaluation in Education

Week 7 Scholarly Discussion

Learner’s Behavior

One of your learners asks to speak to you privately about a concern. Upon entering your office and providing for privacy, the learner slowly and then more forcibly begins to speak. She tells you that she is considering filing a formal grievance against you for age discrimination. During the last formative evaluation conference, you identified concerns in the areas of

(a) patient safety; and

(b) application of knowledge related to medications.

The learner identifies that after several intense conversations with peers, she believes that you are discriminating due to age. The learner then identifies how the concerns related to patient safety and application of knowledge are due to your biased misperceptions. Select a learning environment (nursing professional development or academic), and provide information on how you would first respond to the learner in your office and then what responses would be appropriate at a later time.