1Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute, Seoul, Korea
2College of Nursing, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
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Authors’ contributions
Conceptualization: MKY. Data curation and analy¬sis: MKY. Funding acquisition & project administration: MKY, SS. Writing–original draft: MKY. Writing–review & editing: MKY, SS.
Conflict of interest
No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.
Funding
This work was supported by the Korea Health Personnel Licens¬ing Examination Institute of Korea in 2018.
Data availability
Data files are available from Harvard Dataverse: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KSCE32
Dataset 1. Raw data of the cut score setting by panelists for the 1st mock examination.
Dataset 2. Response data of the survey.
Test | First round | Second round | Final cut score | |||
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Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SE | |
Mock exam 1 | 74.2 | 8.8 | 74.4 | 8.6 | 74.4 | 2.15 |
Mock exam 2 | 76.8 | 6.2 | 76.8 | 6.2 | 76.8 | 1.55 |
Subject | No. of items | Mock exam 1 | Mock exam 2 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Meana) | SD | SE | Meana) | SD | SE | ||
Adult nursing | 70 | 69.8 | 8.8 | 3.3 | 78.3 | 6.8 | 2.6 |
Fundamental nursing | 30 | 79 | 4.6 | 1.7 | 79.5 | 4.4 | 1.7 |
Maternal nursing | 35 | 80 | 8.1 | 4.7 | 73 | 5.6 | 3.2 |
Pediatric nursing | 35 | 78.2 | 6.8 | 3.9 | 76.6 | 6.3 | 3.6 |
Community nursing | 35 | 68.1 | 7.5 | 5.3 | 73.6 | 6.4 | 4.5 |
Psychiatric nursing | 35 | 70.2 | 8.3 | 5.9 | 76.7 | 5.6 | 4 |
Nursing management | 35 | 78.5 | 4.4 | 2.2 | 78.8 | 4.9 | 2.5 |
Medical health legislation | 20 | 78.5 | 5.7 | 2.9 | 76.8 | 5.1 | 2.6 |
Total | 295 | 74.4 | 8.6 | 2.2 | 76.8 | 6.2 | 1.6 |