Strengthening Existing Assessment

Carla McGrath and Linda McKay

Department of Nursing

A Brief History

Requirements of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing and American Association of Colleges of Nursing – Course Evaluations– Clinical Evaluations– Senior Exit survey

Past Practices

Data Collection via bubble sheets

Compilation of Results

Timeliness of Review of Results

Past Practices

Use of Blackboard to distribute surveys

Attempts to review data

Implementation of TK20

Fall, 2008 semester

Piloted in October at end of seven week courses

Process of implementation

Aggregate Results

Results

Bumps along the Road

Security issues Emails tagged as Spam Mail End date of survey Follow-up with students

Advantages to using TK-20

Immediate feedback Reduced manpower hours Go Green – reduction in paper