The use of scoring rubrics to determine clinical performance in the operating suite

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-82

  Nicholson, Patricia ^a   Gillis, Shelley ^b   Dunning, A M Trisha ^c  

^a School of Nursing   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Competence; Competency based assessment; Inter rater reliability; Item separation index; Rubrics

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CALIBRATION; CAREER MOBILITY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CALIBRATION; CAREER MOBILITY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; HUMANS; MODELS, NURSING; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPERATING ROOM NURSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VICTORIA; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 58149330624     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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