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Survival of the Fittest: The Role of Linguistic Modification in Nursing Education ...
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This project's long term goal was to improve English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) nursing student retention. Improving the quality of multiple choice exams is a first crucial step. ESL students find multiple-choice exams to be one of the most challenging aspects of nursing school. One reason for this is the presence of linguistic errors in exam questions. Linguistic errors include: irrelevant question content, poor sentence structure, and culturally biased words or phrases. Non-ESL students are less affected because exams are written in their native language. Linguistic modification, as part of best practices in item writing, removes these types of errors. The U.S. Department of Education indicated that ESL students gained 6% points on linguistically modified mathematics exams in comparison to non-modified exams. The specific aim of this study was to compare exam scores of ESL to non-ESL nursing students on a standard multiple-choice exam compared to a linguistically modified exam. Current research highlights ...
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.34917/7645983 https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/2394
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Survival of the Fittest: The Role of Linguistic Modification in Nursing Education
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In: UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones (2015)
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