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5. Assessment and Evaluation

The document discusses the concepts of assessment and evaluation in health care education, highlighting their roles in measuring student learning and educational effectiveness. It outlines various assessment techniques, methods of evaluation including multiple choice and essay questions, and emphasizes the importance of evaluating patient/client learning outcomes. Additionally, it categorizes five types of evaluation: process, content, outcome, impact, and program evaluation.

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5. Assessment and Evaluation

The document discusses the concepts of assessment and evaluation in health care education, highlighting their roles in measuring student learning and educational effectiveness. It outlines various assessment techniques, methods of evaluation including multiple choice and essay questions, and emphasizes the importance of evaluating patient/client learning outcomes. Additionally, it categorizes five types of evaluation: process, content, outcome, impact, and program evaluation.

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Assessment and evaluation

• Evaluation – the act of considering or examining something, like the


teaching and learning process in health care education, judge the
value, quality or importance of a thing or an endeavour
• - basis is usually through grades that are given to students
• Assessment- is designed to help the teacher find out how much and
how well the students are learning
• - concerned with the different approaches that measure educational
effectiveness basically to provide feedback without any intent to give
a grade.
Learning assessment of students
Factors which make Evaluation of student learning quite
difficult
1. Differences that exist between simulated setting
2. Time of more than a few days that has lapsed
Some techniques used for
classroom assessment
1. One minute paper- usually used during the last three minutes of the class
2. Muddiest point- teacher ask what was the muddiest (most unclear) point in
today’s lesson
3. Directed paraphrasing- student to “state in their own words”
4. Application cards- note down on the index card one possible application of any
principle, theory or new information that has been recently taught by the
instructor.
Method of evaluation of student
learning
1. Multiple choice
2. True or false question
3. Matching question
4. Essay type question
1. Multiple choice question
• Most commonly used in nursing licensure and certification
examination because they are often easy to score manually and by
computer.
• Uses multilogical thinking in answering the multiple choice items,
critical thinking can be tested.
Two parts of multiple choice
1. stem- question itself, can be worded as a question and incomplete
statement
2. Options- possible answers or solution
3. Answer- the correct option
4. Distracters- the incorrect options
2. True-false question
• Test the lowest levels of learning which are knowledge and
comprehension
3. Matching type question
• Lowest level of knowing which test knowledge,
specifically recall of the relationships between two
things such as dates and event, structures and
functions, terms and their definition
4. Essay type question
• Test the highest levels of knowing which are analysis, synthesis
and evaluation

2 types of essay question


1. Restricted response items or short answer question
2. Extended response question or full essay questions
2 approaches in scoring essay
question
1. Point method- also called analytic method
2. Rubric method of scoring- also called holistic method of scoring
Learning assessment of
patient/clients
• Most important outcome of patient teaching is a change in
health-related behavior and how these are applied to attain
healthy lifestyle and wellness.
• Testing psychomotor skills
5 types of evaluation
1. Process (formative) evaluation- adjustments are made in an
educational activity as soon as they are needed
2. Content evaluation- acquired the knowledge and skills
3. Outcome (summative)evaluation- effects or outcomes of the
teaching efforts and “sum up”
4. Impact evaluation- effects of the educational program on the
institution or the community
5. Program evaluation-judge and improve the worth of some
object like an educational program

Methods of course and


content evaluation

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