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====Exam==== | |||
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Students will be provided a pencil, scratch paper, and calculator, if needed, during testing.</p> | |||
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====Accommodations==== | |||
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Faculty will work with On-line Testing Coordinator and any other personnel needed to facilitate testing accommodations for students (e.g., low distraction room, additional testing time).</p> | |||
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<li>On campuses that use affiliated university testing services, complete the accommodated testing form.</li> | |||
<li>Students testing via a paper copy will use a specified excel form to record exam answers. Once the exam is completed, the student will transfer the exam answers to the exam software, or the excel form data will be uploaded into the exam software by College of Nursing personnel. Transferring of the exam answers is not included in the allotted exam time.</li> | |||
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====Exam Construction==== | |||
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<li>Faculty will create a faculty exam blueprint for each exam per course that includes the number and types of questions per concept, exemplar and level of assessment using Blooms Taxonomy.</li> | |||
<li>Faculty will create a student exam blueprint indicating the concepts and number of questions per concept to be shared with students at least one week before the exam.</li> | |||
<li>Exam questions shall be peer reviewed for content applicability, spelling and grammatical errors, and appropriate distractors/responses.</li> | |||
<li>For each exam item a rationale shall be provided.</li> | |||
<li>Exam questions shall be retired after 5 years of use or if exam statistics analysis does not support continued use of the question.</li> | |||
<li>All questions shall mirror NCLEX style questions (e.g., no true/false, negative worded questions, avoid always/never responses).</li> | |||
<li>Randomized responses and/or question order are encouraged.</li> | |||
<li>Questions shall not include “slang”, prejudicial statements, biases, or stereotyping.</li> | |||
<li>Faculty may include up to 10 comprehensive test questions per unit exam that tests content from earlier portions of the course and/or prerequisite and coursework relevant to the course content.</li> | |||
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====Pre-Exam==== | |||
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<li>Faculty shall determine proctors for main testing room and any accommodation testing rooms.</li> | |||
<li>Exams shall be available for posting one business day prior to the scheduled exam time so students can download the exam prior to the testing time.</li> | |||
<li>Course Coordinator will provide proctor with exam details including the password and universal resume code in case of technical issues.</li> | |||
<li>Arrange for any needed supplies during the exam (e.g., calculators, scratch paper, writing utensils, UNMC devices for testing).</li> | |||
<li>Proctors shall enforce restrictions on items in the testing room. (See student section for examples.)</li> | |||
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====Exam==== | |||
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<li>Proctors will respond to technical issues but will not answer questions related to exam content.</li> | |||
<li>There shall be more than one proctor in the main testing room or an alternate support person available on campus.</li> | |||
<li>Faculty shall verify the number of students taking the exam in all testing sites.</li> | |||
<li>Proctors shall check for exam submission via confirmation screen prior to student leaving the testing site.</li> | |||
<li>For ATI proctored exams, faculty must follow ATI requirements.</li> | |||
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====Post-exam==== | |||
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<li>Course Coordinator/ Faculty will review the exam statistics, determine any scoring adjustments needed, and make any adjustments to the exam in the exam/evaluation software.</li> | |||
<li>Course Coordinator shall push adjusted grades to the learning management system from the exam/evaluation software.</li> | |||
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