Barriers to creating: A more culturally diverse nursing profession. Linguistic bias in multiple-choice nursing exams

Nursing Education Perspectives

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-34

  Bosher, Susan ^a  

^a ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment and Evaluation; Cultural Diversity; English as a Second Language; Linguistic Bias; Multiple Choice Exams

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HUMAN; HUMOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL PROFESSION; NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EDUCATION, NURSING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NURSING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037978067     PISSN: 15365026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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