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  • Transcript_2021NCLEX_bhouston.pdf

    ©2021 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 2021 NCSBN NCLEX Conference - The NCLEX Practice Analysis & Test Plan Video Transcript ©2021 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. Event 2021 NCSBN NCLEX Conference More info: https://www.ncsbn.org/15831.htm Presenters Brittany Houston, BSN, RN, Content Development Associate I, Examinations, NCSBN Good afternoon and welcome.

  • Transcript_2021NCLEX_lsuvanto.pdf

    ©2021 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 2021 NCSBN NCLEX Conference - Next Generation NCLEX (NGN): Sample Case Study and Item Sets Video Transcript ©2021 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. Event 2021 NCSBN NCLEX Conference More info: https://www.ncsbn.org/15831.htm Presenters Lisa Suvanto, MSN, RNC-OB, Content Development Associate II, Examinations, NCSBN Good morning.

  • transcript_2022nclex_johnson-qian.pdf

    Finally, our sensitivity panelists are instructed to flag any item that is patronizing, displaying, or indicative of offensively condescending manner such as calling a person sweetie or honey. Condescending language is language that implies that one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity. Offensive language is language that is disapproving to the moral sense, good taste, or is insulting such as a crude joke. Finally, we asked our panelists to flag any item that contains inflammatory content. For example, statements that support or refute one's political opinion. This is an example of an item that contains inflammatory language or content.

  • transcript_2025nclex_biskupic-kim.pdf

    For another example, let's look at this polytomous item with the maximum possible score being 3. For each of the White and Asian Other groups with the same ability level, the table presents the probability of obtaining its score. Again, these are the probabilities for groups with the same ability level. If everything is good, we expect to see very similar numbers for the White and Asian Other groups. However, based on the numbers, 80% of the candidates in the White group obtained a maximum score 3. For the Asian Other group, only 3% obtained the score 3, and most of them obtained score 1.

  • Test publishers and testing services are always concerned with irregular behavior

    This indicates that these test centers may on average have a higher pass rate than the population of test centers, thus have a higher baseline for which to make comparisons in changes to their pass rates. Center Deviation from Previous Center Pass Rate. This procedure identified 18 centers at the 80% confidence level and another 1 at the 95% confidence level. These results looked somewhat similar to the mean difference method. (See Table 1, Map 4) Table 1. Test Center ...

  • Transcript_2021REx-PN_johnson-Qian.pdf

    Finally, our sensitivity panelists are instructed to flag any item that is patronizing, displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner such as calling a person honey or sweetie. Condescending language is language that implies that one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity. Offensive language is language that is disapproving to the moral sense, good taste, or is insulting, such as a cruel joke. Finally, we ask our panelists to flag any item that contains inflammatory content. For example, statements that support or refute one's political opinion. This is an example of an item that contains inflammatory language or content.

  • Transcript_2021SciSymp_KThomas-Dreifuerst.pdf

    All rights reserved. 4 And we're aware that we, potentially, admitted recently-accredited schools and, therefore, respondents because they were not yet included on published lists. And so, this might have narrowed our sample inadvertently, so...but we feel that, overall, our demographics reveal that our representation is very strong and our response rate quite good. So, in conclusion, what we discovered is that for many students the clinical experiences in their FNP programs did not provide the patient encounters reflecting the tasks that were deemed as essential, outlined in the ANCC FNP Role Delineation study and used for the development of the National Certification Examination.

  • Transcript_2019APRN_BTodd.pdf

    But overall, as you can see, I think that's a pretty good impact that we had a 90% increase in graduates. And this is just a breakdown by advanced practice nurse role. And it's no surprise that the biggest increase was related to nurse practitioner graduates and much smaller numbers with the other APRN programs.

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    The analysis of testing center behavior could be helpful if item preknowledge is suspected because this type of finding typically indicates that a test taker had information memorized (as they moved through the item quickly) as compared to cheating within the room. The 8 C© 2016 by the National Council on Measurement in Education Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice FIGURE 7. Residuals of a possibly compromised item from Exam 1-Nonadaptive. FIGURE 8. Residuals for an examinee with 31 flagged residuals (theta = –.37) from Exam 2-CAT. evidence from psychometric analysis alone is not strong enough to invalidate the test takers’ test scores, but it is a good starting point to trigger further investigation.

  • Transcript_2022APRN_aprn-panel.pdf

    I think I've emphasized that pretty heavily in this presentation. I hope I have. I can't say enough about trust and collaboration. I think it's important. You know, I've been in this role for quite a number of years. I've been a nurse in Delaware for over 40 years. So I have I believe good trust within the nurses in Delaware, and I think that we collaborated exceptionally well in order to be able to get this legislation passed. And the other piece is that the leadership of all the organizations, it says a lot for them as well as how they work together and everyone came together again with the common message of increasing access to care.