This Box is
A Game Changer
For Nurse Educators
Writing Nursing Exam Questions
Aligned to National Standards
Just Got Easier & Faster
Meeting accreditation standards is vital and demands attention to assessment techniques. But writing exams aligned to standards has always been a time-consuming process until now.
Intellistem Writer® Box Edition and Intellistem Writer® are developed by nurse educators for nurse educators to solve this problem.
It normally takes 45 minutes to an hour to write a good question from scratch. Using the Intellistem Writer, you will be able to write a brand new, educationally-sound, standards-aligned question in about 15 – 20 minutes that meets assessment requirements and national standards.
Intellistem Writer Box Edition
What’s in our black box?
The Intellistem Writer Box Edition® includes over 800 cards organized and color coded by nursing process. Each card has a question stem on the front and the stem’s alignment to the national standards and cognitive level on the back.
Each box includes:
Each card contains:
NCLEX Client Needs
NLN End of Program Competencies
Nursing Process
AACN Essentials
QSEN Competencies
Cognitive Level
96% of the stems are at the application level or higher.
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6 Ways
Intellistem Writer®
Will Benefit You
Aligns questions to national standards every time
Every question you develop will be aligned to the national standards and cognitive level as indicated on the back of the card. If you place that information on your answer key, you’ll have a running list of accreditation standards competencies. This makes it easy to demonstrate alignment to accrediting organizations.
Improves your
NCLEX pass rates
The starter stems make it simple to create higher-level exam questions. More advanced questions better prepare your students to take the NCLEX exam.
Solves the
commercial test bank cheating problem
Since students can find answers to questions from commercial test banks online, cheating is a huge problem. Using the Intellistem Writer Box Edition provides you a way to develop new and undiscovered questions with ease.
Saves time
Intellistem Writer Box Edition reduces the time needed to write new exams from scratch by up to 75%. You can even use these stems to revise existing questions to save more time. What could you accomplish with all the time you saved?
Reduce Exam
Development Costs
Try our calculator to the savings for just one instructor.
Think how the savings will multiply when several instructors use the Intellistem Writer system.
question
development
It’s simple to develop multiple choice or multiple select questions (all that apply) with the Intellistem Writer® Box Edition.
Just follow a few steps.
Select a topic from your test blueprint.
With the nursing process and topic in mind,
select a stem from the box of cards.
Review the national standard associated with the stem on the back of the card.
Add a client situation or description to the stem by changing the colored text. The black text is the question or problem the student must answer or solve.
EXAMPLE: The client with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is experiencing heartburn, eructation, and feeling of flatulence. In addition to taking his medications, what advice would it be most appropriate for the nurse to provide?
Record the standards and cognitive level in your answer key.
Record the card ID if you want to reference the stem source later. (Optional)
question
development
It’s simple to develop multiple choice or multiple select questions (all that apply) with the Intellistem Writer™ Box Edition.
Just follow a few steps.
Select a topic from your test blueprint.
With the nursing process and topic in mind, select a stem from the box of cards.
Review the national standard associated with the stem on the back of the card.
Add a client situation or description to the stem by changing the colored text. The black text is the question or problem the student must answer or solve.
EXAMPLE: The client with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is experiencing heartburn, eructation, and feeling of flatulence. In addition to taking his medications, what advice would it be most appropriate for the nurse to provide?
Record the standards and cognitive level in your answer key.
Record the card ID if you want to reference the stem source later. (Optional)
Once these steps are complete, you’ll have developed a question aligned to established standards with answer(s) and believable distractors. Repeat the steps, and in no time at all, you will have created an entire exam. Because you’ve documented standards alignment, you’ll be in good shape for your next accreditation visit.
Try before you buy!
If you haven't had a chance to visit our booth at a recent conference, we’d be happy to send you some box card examples and a copy of our tip sheet for writing exam question.
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