COMPARISON OF TEST METHODS USED TO ASSESS COMPETENCE IN THE HEALTH FIELDS (NURSING, ALLIED HEALTH).
Contributors: Rutgers University.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Education, Tests and Measurements.
Description: This study examined the relationships among four test methods commonly used in assessment of competence in the health fields. The methods were: discrete multiple-choice questions; situational multiple-choice questions; linear patient management problems; and branching patient management problems. The tests were all professionally developed, based on equivalent content, and administered simultaneously, as part of a national credentialing examination for advanced certification in psychiatric nursing. A task anchored rating scale, based on generally equivalent content and submitted by supervisors, peers, and the candidates just prior to the credentialing examination, was also examined in relationship to the test methods. A multi-trait-multimethod correlation matrix was computed. The findings included a pattern of low correlation among the methods and consistent domination of test content by method. The discrete multiple-choice test method had the highest correlation with the other methods and the rating scale.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-08, Section: A, page: 3012.

Thesis (ED.D.)--RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK, 1986.

School code: 0190.