Associate Professor (Dr Dabney) and Graduate Research Associate (Dr VanDerWoude), University of Michigan-Flint School of Nursing, Flint.
Nurse Educ. 2023;48(4):187-191. doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001372. Epub 2023 Feb 6.
Nurse educators are charged with the challenging task of evaluating student learning and abilities effectively using traditional student assessment methods, which come with several inherent shortcomings. New guidelines for nurse educators now present a more competency-based approach to nursing education that calls for objective-driven assessments.
Traditional grading practices lack the ability to connect student learning to their final course grades. However, specifications grading, which directly links grades to learning objectives, has not been not adequately explored in the nursing literature.
A specifications grading system was designed and implemented in an online undergraduate nursing research course. Student and faculty feedback on the system were reviewed.
Overall, students and faculty approved of the specifications grading system. Recommendations are presented for adopting specifications grading in nursing courses. Research is needed to explore student perceptions of the grading system and its effects on student learning and performance.
护士教育者肩负着一项艰巨的任务，即使用传统的学生评估方法有效地评估学生的学习和能力，但这些方法存在一些固有缺陷。现在，新的护士教育者指南提出了一种更基于能力的护理教育方法，要求进行以目标为导向的评估。
传统的评分实践缺乏将学生学习与最终课程成绩联系起来的能力。然而，评分规范（将成绩直接与学习目标联系起来）在护理文献中尚未得到充分探讨。
在一门在线本科护理研究课程中设计并实施了评分规范系统。对学生和教师对该系统的反馈进行了审查。
总体而言，学生和教师都赞成评分规范系统。为在护理课程中采用评分规范提出了建议。需要研究探索学生对评分系统的看法及其对学生学习和表现的影响。
