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Mode Matters!: Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Test-Preparation and Test-Taking Strategies for Computer Based Testing
Get PDFBackground: Until recently, computer-based testing (CBT) has not been widely used in Canadian nursing programs and traditional paper-based testing has been the predominant testing modality. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic, many nursing schools very quickly adapted to remote evaluation strategies including rapid CBT implementation. There is limited literature surrounding how nursing students prepare for and what test-taking strategies are used when completing CBTs as opposed to traditional paper-based exams.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of undergraduate nursing students’ perceptions of test-preparation and test-taking strategies specific to CBT. Sharing this knowledge may contribute to the body of literature and serve as a foundation for further research.
Method: Through purposive sampling, this qualitative study was implemented, and data collected using online surveys and semi-structured focus groups. Data was analyzed by thematic analysis.
Results: Three themes were generated: double duty, test-taking tribulations, and repeat exposure. Findings including test-preparation learnings, test-taking challenges, and recommendations for CBT are discussed.
Conclusion: CBT poses both challenges and learning opportunities for students. Exposing students to CBT may increase their awareness of effective test-preparation and test-taking strategies which may positively contribute to how they prepare for future computerized exams.articl
Undergraduate nursing students’ perceptions of computer based testing
Get PDFBackground & Purpose:The National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses
(NCLEX-RN) is a computer adaptive licensure examination that nursing students are eligible
to write upon completion of their undergraduate nursing degree. Success on this exam is a
requirement for Registered Nurse practice. Historically, the Canadian licensure examination
was a paper-based exam. However, in 2015 the NCLEX-RN was adopted. Initially Canadian
pass rates declined and nursing schools have been seeking strategies to better prepare
students for this exam. Practice with computer based testing (CBT) may be one
approach. However, CBT has not been widely used and many nursing programs continue
with paper-based exams. Recently CBT was integrated into a third year undergraduate
nursing course in Alberta, Canada. The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain an
understanding of undergraduate nursing student experiences with and perceptions of CBT.
Specifically, the goals were to inform personal teaching and evaluative practices, positively
contribute to changes to future course testing approaches, and share knowledge with other
educators who may be considering the integration of CBT into their courses. Sharing this
knowledge may contribute to the body of literature and serve as a foundation on which
further research on this topic area could be conducted.
Method: Through purposive sampling, data was collected from 38 students who completed
a set of reflective questions. Data was analyzed by thematic analysis.
Results: Four themes were generated: immediacy matters, distrust of self, navigating the
new, and high stakes on the horizon. Findings including the benefits, challenges, and
recommendations are discussed.
Conclusion: There are advantages and disadvantages to CBT. Providing CBT opportunities
may encourage students to reflect on their learning, test-preparation, and test-taking
strategies promoting reflection upon how they prepare for and engage in future
computerized exams
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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