title: Determining Content Validity and Reporting a Content Validity Index for Simulation Scenarios.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article aims to assist educators and researchers in determining content validity (CV) and reporting a content validity index (CVI) for simulation scenarios.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Educators and researchers involved in health care curricula may not recognize the need to validate and/or do not know how to validate a simulation scenario.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two methods based on previous research that can be used to determine CV and report a CVI are discussed (Lynn and Lawshe).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Simulation scenarios need to be written so experts can fully understand the entirety of content and accurately assess whether items are relevant. Information for a CV template for experts is provided.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Determining item CV and reporting an overall CVI are important elements necessary to simulation scenarios, especially when the scenario is used in a high-stakes assessment or research.
authors.forename: Tonya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rutherford-Hemming
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D016544:Patient Simulation; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires