title: Designing authentic assessment: strategies for nurse educators.
abstract: Increased emphasis on health care safety requires renewed attention to teaching and learning processes for future health care professionals. When presented with problems situated in a clinical context, learners have rich opportunities to demonstrate integration of concepts. Authentic assessment is an approach to evaluation of learning through which students can demonstrate acquired knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the context of real-world or realistic nursing practice activities. This article describes features, approaches, and examples of authentic assessment processes in the context of classroom, clinical, and online nursing education.
authors.affiliation: Authors Affiliations: Assistant Professor and Coordinator (Dr Poindexter), CNS Adult/Gerontology & Education Concentration, College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Clinical Professor and Coordinator for Teaching Excellence (Dr Hagler), College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix; and Assistant Professor of Nursing and Director (Dr Lindell), Graduate Entry Nursing Program, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Poindexter
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hagler
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lindell
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D020375:Education, Distance; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*