Quiz Development Strategies

Assessing student learning is a necessary and critical task of most learning experiences. Many tools are available that allow educators to easily create criterion-referenced tests and to gather important feedback. These tools can automatically grade and provide educators with summary data and other important statistics, saving time and a great deal of number crunching! Furthermore, such online tools allow students to complete assessments at a time and place that is convenient for them.
This week you examine quiz development strategies and websites that can help nurse educators create online assessments. Additionally, you explore online tools that you can use to evaluate and critique student learning experiences using rubrics
Learning Objectives
Students will:
* Create quiz questions that meaningfully align to learning objectives
* Evaluate challenges associated with online quiz development
* Evaluate technology as a means to facilitate quizzes
* Evaluate the alignments of quiz questions to learning objectives
* Construct a rubric that aligns to a lesson plan
* Evaluate the alignment of rubrics to learning objectives
Learning Resources
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Required Readings
Bristol, T. J., &Zerwekh, J. (2011). Essentials of e-learning for nurse educators. Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis Company.
* Chapter 9, “E-Learning Assessment” (pp. 165–179)
 
Chapter 9 provides a brief description of each of the following e-learning assessments: rubrics, examinations, discussions, essays/papers, performance assessments, simulations/case studies, and portfolios.
 
HYPERLINK "http://dx.doi.org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2008.10.015" \o "Rubrics for clinical evaluation: Objectifying the subjective experience" \t "_blank"
Isaacson, J. J., & Stacy, A. S. (2009). Rubrics for clinical evaluation: Objectifying the subjective experience. Nurse Education in Practice, 9(2), 134–140.
This article describes how nurse educators can and should use rubrics to evaluate student progress in clinical environments.
HYPERLINK "http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php" \o "RubiStar" \t "_blank"
RubiStar. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
 
RubiStar is a fairly well-known website that allows educators to quickly and easily create rubrics. Educators may choose to access rubrics shared by other educators, modify general RubiStar templates, or create their own rubric. Though RubiStar does allow users to create and export templates without using the free registration, it is highly recommended that you create an account. This will allow you to save, review, and edit your rubrics.
HYPERLINK "http://p4cdn2static.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_79451/File/Elmwood%20Park/director%20of%20testing/Rubrics_ToolsTips.pdf" \o "Rubric Tool Tips" \t "_blank"
Rubric Tool Tips.(n.d.). http://p4cdn2static.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_79451/File/Elmwood%20Park/director%20of%20testing/Rubrics_ToolsTips.pdf
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