Fostering Student Success: Turning Off Practice Assessment Rationales to Improve Proctored Assessment Scores.

Nurs Educ Perspect

About the Authors The authors are faculty at Indiana University of Pennsylvania Nursing and Allied Health Professions, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth A. Palmer, PhD, RN, CNE, is a professor. Joyce A Shanty, PhD, RN, is an associate professor and allied health coordinator. Amy Labant, PhD, RNC, is an assistant professor. Beverly Rossiter, MN, MSN, CPNP, is an assistant professor. For more information, contact Dr. Palmer at

Published: February 2018

Preparing students with opportunities to practice critical thinking skills is essential to success on the National Council Licensure Examination. This pilot study was conducted to explore the effectiveness of turning off practice assessment answers and rationales on a standardized examination. A retrospective study compared students' scores when rationales were turned on and turned off. Eighty-one percent of the students were able to achieve the benchmark when the answers and rationales were turned off as compared to 71 percent when turned on. Faculty can utilize these findings to inform remediation strategies.

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