title: Repeat testing with the HESI exit exam-sixth validity study.
abstract: Since 1996, the accuracy of the HESI Exit Exam, or E(2) in predicting NCLEX success has been scientifically investigated. Five previously conducted studies determined that the E(2) was between 96.36% and 98.30% accurate in predicting NCLEX-RN success (N = 27037). However, all five of these studies examined the accuracy of the E(2) in predicting NCLEX success based on the first administration of the E(2).This study (N = 10147), which examined the predictive accuracy of parallel versions of the E(2), found that there was no significant difference in predictive accuracy between the first (96.44%) and second (92.94%) versions of the E(2), but the third (82.50%) version was significantly less accurate in predicting NCLEX-RN success than were the first two Eversions. The authors conjectured that students taking the E(2) for the third time were at greater risk for NCLEX-RN failure than were those who successfully met the school's designated benchmark score the first or second time they took the E(2).
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Texas Woman's University, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Adamson
authors.forename: Robin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Britt
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D004507:Education, Nursing, Associate / Q000592:standards; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000592:standards; D004510:Education, Nursing, Diploma Programs / Q000592:standards; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D013338:Students, Nursing