BSN: Study 3 - 1st cohort
Program: Study participants were enrolled in a BSN program in which students had 12-month access to Lippincott® PassPoint. PassPoint was used in a final semester NCLEX-RN® prep course to help identify where students needed help and to provide a more individualized experience to help them achieve first-time success on the NCLEX-RN.
Course Structure: PassPoint use was part of the students’ grade (~20%). Students used ATI during their program. They took two proctored tests (in a computer lab) and, following each, were required to remediate on weak areas using PassPoint. Students also took the HESI CAT and the HESI E2.
PassPoint Implementation: As part of their required coursework, students were assigned three question collection assignments and five ML quiz assignments with a target ML of 5. There were 12 PassPoint practice exams assigned — one per week for 12 weeks. Three practice exams had 75 questions, two 100 questions, two 150 questions, two 200 questions, and three 265 questions.
Lippincott® PassPoint usage and mastery
Overall Lippincott PassPoint quizzing usage and ML is shown in Table 20. Students answered an average of 1,560 questions, took an average of 107.6 quizzes, and achieved an average final quizzing ML of 4.3. There was little variance in ML but greater variance in usage, which shows some students were achieving target MLs with fewer questions than others. Given the large variance in question number, we also calculated the median number of questions answered (Mdn = 1,384) and number of quizzes (Mdn = 90).
