High Stakes Testing in Nursing Education

Webinar Overview

The nursing community has raised concerns about the growing use of standardized exit exams and the practice of using them as part of a graduation requirement. After years of preparation, a single test score could prevent a student from graduating or taking a licensing exam. The tremendous importance placed on exit exams qualifies them as “high stakes testing,” and a better understanding of this concept in nursing education is examined in this Webinar. .

NOTE: This Webinar is only open to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. 

Webinar Speaker

Debra Henline Sullivan, PhD, RN, CNE, COI
Core Faculty
Walden University

Dr. Sullivan earned her PhD in nursing with a focus on nursing education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where her dissertation topic was the practice of using exit exams as graduation requirements. She has recently published and presented nationally on the topic of High Stakes testing. Other research interests are pediatric nursing, nursing leadership, childbirth education, high-fidelity simulation and nursing informatics. Over her career she has taught undergraduate and graduate nursing students both in traditional and online classrooms. Currently she is core faculty at Walden University.