Barriers to Creating a More Culturally Diverse Nursing Profession: Linguistic Bias in Multiple-Choice Nursing Exams.

Bosher, Susan

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ERIC Number: EJ662251

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Barriers to Creating a More Culturally Diverse Nursing Profession: Linguistic Bias in Multiple-Choice Nursing Exams.

Bosher, Susan

Nursing Education Perspectives, v24 n1 p25-34 Jan-Feb 2003

Nineteen multiple-choice nursing tests containing 673 items were analyzed for test wiseness, irrelevant difficulty in stem or option, linguistic/structural bias, or cultural bias. Twenty-eight types of flaws occurred at least 10 times each. (Contains 28 references.) (SK)

Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Higher Education, Item Analysis, Item Bias, Multiple Choice Tests, Nursing Education, Social Bias, Test Items, Test Wiseness

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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