title: Test design: putting all the pieces together.
abstract: Preparing a nursing examination involves more than writing test items. The design of a test can contribute to measurement error and affect the validity and reliability of students' test scores. Nursing faculty should strive to minimize measurement error by following certain design rules when preparing a test. The author offers guidelines to help teachers design tests that will enable students to demonstrate their best performance.
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Gaberson
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014956:Writing