The Learner Evaluation is completed by a preceptor and is designed to be most often used on a mobile device. The Learner Evaluation can be customized completely. There are ten major topic areas with two topics allowing for two additional sub-questions each. Utilize this form to:
- Setting up Evaluation Items for a role[1],
- Changing default items or where/when the questions publish.
Each item on the Learner Evaluation can be customized. The Preceptor is asked to rate the learner on a series of items regarding their effectiveness in their new role. Customize each item: Item Name, Choose where to publish (Daily / Formal / Both), and Description. The Minimum Score, Maximum Score, and Steps on the scale are based on the rubric.
Rubric
The Rubic tab is the second tab on the form; however, understand the control this tab exerts over all the evaluation items, how they are presented, scored, and compared to others. The user is presented with the formatted rubric, a dropdown showing how the array matches the scored (keys) to the display values, and an example item.
Click the button to enter the Edit Screen.
There are two text fields that save the instructions that appear at the top of the evaluations:
Evaluation Label: Enter Text [Using the slider, please evaluate the following:]
Evaluation Instrucitons: Enter Text [From left to right consider how much assistance was needed to achieve the goal for each patient.]
This tab controls both the description/instructions on how to score an item, but also the scale for the item and the labels.
- The Rubric field is highlighted in yellow and is written in HTML[2].
- The Array field is highlighted blue and is written so that the website can decipher the list into keys (result) and the value (displayed score).
- All of the unique keys (matching the integer value saved in the database) are separated by a comma “,” with a space between each.
- The values are in the same order and also separated by a comma “,” with a space between each.
- The keys and values are separated by a semi-colon “;”[2].
- The Minimum Score field, highlighted in orange, is applied to every single item on the Learner Evaluation. This is the lowest value on the scale[3].
- The Step Between Score field, highlighted in green, designates how sensitive the scale can be; this value is applied to every single item on the Learner Evaluation[3].
- The Maximum Score field, highlighted in grey, designates the maximum end of the scale and is also applied to every single item on the Learner Evaluation[3].
- The Minimum Label, highlighted in purple, is a description for the low end of the scale and is written in HTML.
- The Maximum Label, highlighted in red, is a description for the high end of the scale and is written in HTML.
- The Learner Rubric is used on Daily/Formal Evaluations, and it is also used on Provider Evaluations when scoring items about the Learner. The Preceptor Evaluation Rubric is set up in the same way.
Recommendation: Click the button to apply the rubric adjustments to the items before editing.
Evaluation Items
There are ten items scored on a Learner Evaluation that can be customized; items four and five have two additional sub-questions. Each item applies the rubric to a question.
The evaluation is designed to ask questions that the layperson can understand and score to provide a comprehensive picture of the learner's clinical judgement.
Item Name: Text
Item Published: Select 1:
- Hidden
- Published (Daily and Formal Evaluations)
- Published (Only Daily Evaluation)
- Published (Only Formal Evaluation)
- Published skip Resource Shifts (Daily and Formal Evaluations)
- Published skip Resource Shifts (Only Daily Evaluation)
Item 1 Description: Text displayed on the item:
Create a 'blank' using __________ (ten underscores), on certain Site Views the __________ will be exchanged for the value of the score using the Rubric Array.
Item 1 Data Name: (readonly field - location where data is saved)
The multiple-choice or open-ended items that appear at the top of the evaluation are created on a record related to the individual learner and are updated through the Learner Update form.
There are shift description dropdown fields that allow the Preceptor to report on their assignment for the shift.
Click the button to enter the Edit Screen.
Item 10 Dropdown Alternative: HTML <options> to display the question as a dropdown instead of a slider.
Default values for this field can be found here.
Three Shift Description fields can be used; each is formatted the same.
Shift Select Name: Text
Shift Select Published: Select 1:
- Hidden
- Published (Daily and Formal Evaluations)
- Published (Only Daily Evaluation)
- Published (Only Formal Evaluation)
- Published skip Resource Shifts (Daily and Formal Evaluations)
- Published skip Resource Shifts (Only Daily Evaluation)
Shift Description: Array field written so that the website can decipher the list into keys (result) and the value (displayed score).
- All of the unique keys (matching the integer value saved in the database) are separated by a comma “,” with a space between each.
- The values are in the same order and also separated by a comma “,” with a space between each.
- The keys and values are separated by a semi-colon “;”
Shift Select Data Name: (readonly field - location where data is saved)
Goal Templates
The Goal Templates are designed to facilitate the completion of the Formal Evaluation by having options that the user can select as a goal for the learner.
Click the button to enter the Edit Screen for the desired goal.
Each topic has the title brought over from the Evaluation Items screen and is set up to have as many as five goal templates.
The Title of the Goal is highlighted in yellow in the figure above.
The Goal that will be displayed and entered on the Formal Evaluation is highlighted in blue. The use of five underscores (_____) will be substituted for the Learner's Name. The goal can be refined from the template before completing the Formal Evaluation by the Orientation Nurse User.
Details
The details screen has just three fields, but controls how the form is displayed.
Template Name: Text [Acme General (RN)]
Enable Automatically Sending Links to Daily Learner Evaluation: Select 1 [Enabled/Disabled]
Automatically Publish Daily Evaluations: Select 1 [Hidden (Orientation Nurse chooses to Publish)/Publish Automatically][4]
Click on when satisfied with the changes[2] and use the to see an example of how the evaluation will appear to users.