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标题：An assessment blueprint for the Advanced Medical Life Support two-day prehospital emergency medical services training program in the United States
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作者：Les R.Becker ; Matt Vassar
期刊名称：Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions
电子版ISSN：1975-5937
出版年度：2015
卷号：12
期号：1
页码：1-8
DOI：10.3352/jeehp.2015.12.43
语种：English
出版社：Korea Health Insurance Licensing Examination Institute
摘要：Purpose:Traditional approaches to blueprint creation may focus on fine-grained detail at the expense of important foun_x0002_dational concepts.The purpose of this study was to develop a method for constructing an assessment blueprint to guide the creation of a new post-test for a two-day prehospital emergency medical services training program.Methods:In or?der to create the blueprint,we first determined the proportions of the total classroom and home-study minutes associat?ed with the lower- and higher-order cognitive objectives of each chapter of the textbook and the two-day classroom activities during training courses conducted from January to April 2015.These proportions were then applied to a 50-ques?tion test structure in order to calculate the number of desired questions by chapter and content type.Results:Our blue?print called for the test to contain an almost even split of lower- and higher-order cognitive questions.One-best-answer multiple choice items and extended matching-type items were written to assess lower- and higher-order cognitive content,respectively.Conclusion:We report the first known application of an assessment blueprint to a prehospital profes?sional development education program.Our approach to blueprint creation is computationally straightforward and could be easily adopted by a group of instructors with a basic understanding of lower- and higher-order cognitive con?structs.By blueprinting at the chapter level,as we have done,item-writers should be more inclined to construct ques?tions that focus on important central themes or procedures.
关键词：Purpose:Traditional approaches to blueprint creation may focus on fine-grained detail at the expense of important foun_x0002_dational concepts.The purpose of this study was to develop a method for constructing an assessment blueprint to guide the creation of a new post-test for a two-day prehospital emergency medical services training program.Methods:In or?der to create the blueprint,we first determined the proportions of the total classroom and home-study minutes associat?ed with the lower- and higher-order cognitive objectives of each chapter of the textbook and the two-day classroom activities during training courses conducted from January to April 2015.These proportions were then applied to a 50-ques?tion test structure in order to calculate the number of desired questions by chapter and content type.Results:Our blue?print called for the test to contain an almost even split of lower- and higher-order cognitive questions.One-best-answer multiple choice items and extended matching-type items were written to assess lower- and higher-order cognitive content,respectively.Conclusion:We report the first known application of an assessment blueprint to a prehospital profes?sional development education program.Our approach to blueprint creation is computationally straightforward and could be easily adopted by a group of instructors with a basic understanding of lower- and higher-order cognitive con?structs.By blueprinting at the chapter level,as we have done,item-writers should be more inclined to construct ques?tions that focus on important central themes or procedures.