title: Effect of free time the day prior to mastery testing on nursing students' scores.
abstract: This study compared mastery test score averages of 43 students who spent the day preceding the test in a seven-hour clinical laboratory with score averages of 36 students who had free time for study. The null hypothesis, that no significant difference would be found in the test means between the groups, was not rejected. Test score differences, it was assumed, resulted from chance.
mesh_terms: D004521:Educational Measurement; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D013338:Students, Nursing