Developing and evaluating innovative items for the NCLEX: Part 2, item characteristics and cognitive processing.
This article is a continuation of the research on the development and evaluation of innovative item formats for the NCLEX examinations that was published in the March/April 2009 edition of Nurse Educator. The authors discuss the innovative item templates and evaluate the statistical characteristics and level of cognitive processing required to answer the examination items.
NCLEX Examinations Department, National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 111 East Wacker Dr, Chicago, Illinois 60601, USA. awendt@ncsbn.org
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