RELATIONSHIP OF TEACHER-MADE NURSING TEST SCORES, ACT-PEP TEST SCORES, AND NCLEX-RN SCORES AMONG GENERIC BACCALAUREATE NURSING STUDENTS.
Contributors: Northern Illinois University.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Education, Health.
Description: This study investigated the validity of ACT-PEP tests as a possible mechanism for awarding credit to students with prior nursing knowledge. The convenience sample consisted of 56 of 57 members of the 1985 senior class of generic nursing students in a medium-sized liberal arts college.

This was a correlation study which determined: (a) the correlation between students' scores on three ACT-PEP and teacher-made tests in corresponding nursing courses, (b) the correlation between students' scores on three ACT-PEP tests and the nursing licensure (NCLEX-RN) test, (c) the correlation between students' scores on teacher-made tests and the NCLEX-RN, and (d) the difference between the correlation of the students' ACT-PEP scores and NCLEX-RN scores and the correlation of students' scores on the teacher-made tests and NCLEX-RN scores.

Correlation coefficients for scores on teacher-made and ACT-PEP tests in corresponding content areas were: .588 for medical-surgical nursing, .452 for psychiatric nursing, and .423 for maternal-child nursing. Correlation coefficients for scores on three ACT-PEP tests and the NCLEX-RN were: .708 for Adult Nursing, .460 for Psychiatric Nursing, and .431 for Maternal-Child Nursing. Correlation coefficients for scores on teacher-made tests and the NCLEX-RN were: .598 for medical-surgical nursing, .553 for psychiatric nursing, and .519 for maternal-child nursing. All correlations were significant at the .001 level. The difference between the correlation coefficients of teacher-made test scores and NCLEX-RN scores and ACT-PEP scores and NCLEX-RN scores were not statistically significant.

The predictive validity of teacher-made tests and ACT-PEP tests on the NCLEX-RN was also investigated. Two of the six independent variables, the ACT-PEP Adult Nursing and the teacher-made medical-surgical nursing tests, accounted for 55% of the variance on the NCLEX-RN in a stepwise multiple regression.

Because of high correlations between all of the scores on teacher-made tests, ACT-PEP tests, and the NCLEX-RN, it is recommended that credit be awarded to generic students in traditional baccalaureate nursing programs who demonstrate prior nursing knowledge on the ACT-PEP tests.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-08, Section: A, page: 2900.

Thesis (ED.D.)--NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, 1986.

School code: 0162.