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  • Healthcare Professional Development

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  • Growing demand for rigorous evaluation of nursing students' clinical judgment skills before graduation.
  • Challenges in accurately assessing student clinical performance.
  • Limited research on effective rater training strategies for performance evaluation.

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  • To evaluate the impact of rater training on interrater reliability using the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric (LCJR).
  • To assess the effectiveness of a specific training intervention compared to a control group.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental pre- and posttest comparative study design.
  • Involved 34 nurse educators as participants.
  • Utilized the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric (LCJR) as the evaluation instrument.

Main Results:

  • Rater training showed minimal improvement in interrater reliability compared to expert benchmarks.
  • Both trained and untrained (control) groups experienced rater decay over time.
  • The effectiveness of the training intervention was limited.

Conclusions:

  • Consistent and fair assessment of student clinical judgment requires effective rater training.
  • Establishing clear rating benchmarks by expert raters before assessments is recommended.
  • Further research into optimal rater training methodologies is warranted.