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How Educational Resources, Inc. Develops a Test
Step 1
Request for a Diagnostic Instrument
A request is presented to ERI from the health occupations community for a specific content diagnostic test. This request is considered by the standing Examination Committee
Step 2
Survey of Literature
If the committee believes the request to be a viable one, it establishes a subcommittee of health occupations content experts. The function of this subcommittee is to review recent literature of specific health occupations content that has been generated:
• guidelines of state and professional licensing bodies
• critical nursing activity studies completed by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing
• content covered in textbooks used by American schools of health occupations (Mosby, Lippincott, Saunders, Springhouse, etc.)
• nursing content reflected by specific curricula of ADN, BSN, Diploma programs, LPN, etc.
Step 3
Establish Test Draft
A general test plan is developed that reflects the literature survey.
Step 4
Validity of Test Plan
The standing Examination Committee of Nursing Content Experts then reviews the overall draft and the suggested proportion of questions that would be assigned to each test topic. Modifications are made in the test plan and returned to the subcommittee as a final test blueprint.
Step 5
Assignment of Test Items
The subcommittee then oversees the assignment of questions to the test from the large test pool of ERI. Questions not found in ERI’s test pool are assigned to be written by qualified item writers who continually write and evaluate questions for ERI.
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