Revisioning Assessment and Evaluation in Nursing Education Through Critical Caring Pedagogy: Using Authentic...

Instead of instilling in nursing students critical thinking to challenge injustice and oppression in nursing practice, nurse educators often rely on outdated traditional approaches to education. This situation is certainly true in traditional methods of evaluation that often propagate a banking mode of learning. One of the most commonly used methods of evaluating students is traditional examinations, which have recently become a source of pedagogical conflict among educators. In this article, we outline how educators unknowingly encourage surface learning, uncaring practices, oppression, inequity, and cheating when they rely on traditional examinations. We draw on critical caring pedagogy and universal design for learning to advocate for increased use of authentic assessment in nursing education. A Supplemental Digital Content video abstract is available at http://links.lww.com/ANS/A31.