Part 2 book “Evaluation and testing in nursing education” has contents: Testing and evaluation in online courses and programs, scoring and analyzing tests, clinical evaluation, clinical evaluation methods, program evaluation, grading, interpreting test scores, social, ethical, and legal issues, and other contents. | ELEVEN Testing and Evaluation in Online Courses and Programs Contemporary nursing students expect educational institutions to p rovide flexible instructional methods that help them balance their academic, employment, family, and personal commitments (Jones & Wolf, 2010). Online education has rapidly developed as a potential solution to these demands. The growth rate of online student enrollment in all disciplines has far exceeded the growth rate of traditional course student enrollment in United States higher education (Allen & Seaman, 2015). Over m illion students enrolled in at least one college-level online course during the fall 2013 academic term, with the proportion of all students taking at least one online course at an all-time high of (Allen & Seaman, 2015). In nursing, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2016) reported that 173 registered nurse (RN)-to-master’s degree programs and more than 400 RNto-bachelor of science in nursing programs were offered at least partially online. For the purposes of this chapter, online courses are those in which at least 80% of the course content is delivered online. Face-to-face courses are those in which 0% to 29% of the content is delivered online; this category includes both traditionaland web-facilitated courses. Blended (sometimes called hybrid) courses have between 30% and 80% of the course content delivered online (Allen & Seaman, 2015). Examples of various course management systems used for online courses include Blackboard, Desire2Learn, and Moodle. Along with the expansion of online delivery of courses and programs comes concern about how to evaluate their quality. Absent a widely accepted standard of evaluating these online offerings, “[t]he institution assumes the responsibility for establishing a means to assess student outcomes. This assessment includes overall program outcomes, in addition to specific course outcomes, and a process for using the results for continuous .
