Assessment Expert Working Group

The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education provides a framework for preparing nurses using a competency-based approach to education.  Methods to best measure competency in nursing education need further exploration and a design that will challenge students and prepare them for practice. A working group comprised of multidisciplinary competency-based education (CBE) assessment experts has been created to guide this work. The working group will help to identify the role AACN should take in addressing competency assessment as well as possible strategies for competency assessment. The group understands that while educational approaches may vary, outcomes should not. Additionally, the working groupwill provide guidance regarding AACN’s role in faculty development in the area of assessment and evaluation.

	Bimbola F. Akintade, PhD, Chair East Carolina University Dean
	Jonathan Amiel, MD Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Senior Associate Dean for Innovation in Health Professions Education
	David Cella, PhD Northwestern University Chair, Department of Medical Social Sciences
	Phil Dickison, PhD National Council of State Boards of Nursing Chief Operations & Examinations Officer
	Carol Fowler Durham, EdD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor and Director, Education-Innovation-Simulation Learning Environment
	Robert Englander, MD University of Minnesota Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education
	Kara Hedvig Evans, MSN Atrium Health Director of Nursing Professional Development
	Suzan Kardong-Edgren, PhD MGH Institute of Health Professions Associate Professor
	Cynthia O'Neal, PhD University of Texas Health San Antonio Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies
	Margaret Rauschenberger, MSN Alverno College Dean Emerita
	Janelle Sokolowich, PhD Western Governors University Academic Vice President and Dean
	Susan Corbridge, PhD, Staff Liaison Chief Essentials Program Officer scorbridge@aacnnursing.org