The Tabletop Matrix: Determining Reliability for a Criterion-Referenced Performance Measure

Disasters are high-impact events. Tabletop exercises are a historic education strategy used to determine policies, procedures, and strengths and challenges for those involved. A tabletop exercise was designed for students to demonstrate transfer of prior medical-surgical content to a novel context o...

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Published inThe Journal of nursing education Vol. 56; no. 8; pp. 509 - 513
Main Authors Evans, Cathleen A, Baumberger-Henry, Mary
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States SLACK INCORPORATED 01.08.2017
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Answer Keys
Basic Skills
Classrooms
Clinical Competence - standards
Content Validity
Decision Making
Disaster Planning - organization & administration
Disasters - prevention & control
Educational evaluation
Educational Objectives
Emergency Programs
Feedback (Response)
Formative Evaluation
Humans
Intensive Care Units - organization & administration
Medical-surgical nursing
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing education
Nursing Evaluation Research
Nursing Students
Outcomes of Education
Pilot Projects
Reproducibility of Results
Research Design
Sample Size
Students, Nursing
Test Items
Transfer of Training
Validity
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Summary:Disasters are high-impact events. Tabletop exercises are a historic education strategy used to determine policies, procedures, and strengths and challenges for those involved. A tabletop exercise was designed for students to demonstrate transfer of prior medical-surgical content to a novel context of a hospital patient surge following a disaster. To accompany the tabletop exercise, a tabletop matrix was developed as an instrument to measure students' learning transfer of medical-surgical content. A pilot study was conducted with senior baccalaureate nursing students to determine instrument reliability and effectiveness of the tabletop exercise. Postpilot interrater reliability was established with medical-surgical experts for the matrix, scenarios, and dispositions. Cronbach's alpha could not be calculated, and rationale is provided. Improvements were made to the instrument's items. The tabletop matrix was determined to be a criterion-referenced performance measurement of nursing students' learning transfer of medical-surgical concepts to a novel circumstance using a disaster-scenario tabletop exercise. [J Nurs Educ. 2017;56(8):509-513.].
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ISSN:0148-4834
1938-2421
DOI:10.3928/01484834-20170712-12