Guidelines for identifying and revising culturally biased multiple-choice nursing examination items.
To increase the diversity of the RN workforce, programs of nursing need to recruit, retain, and graduate a multicultural student body. One reason attributed to high attrition rates for minority students is bias in nursing examinations. Ensuring that nursing assessments are valid and reliable measures of student learning will improve outcomes for diverse students. The author explores the issue of bias in multiple-choice nursing examinations. Bias is defined, and its prevalence in nursing examinations is discussed. Guidelines are provided to assist evaluating and revising test items that are fair for students of all cultural groups.
College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Nikole.Hicks@uc.edu
Nikole Anderson
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Hicks
D003467:Cultural Deprivation; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000193:education*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D014481:United States