Barrios AS, Urrutia EM, Catoni SMI

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: More than one thousand questions that made up the bank of items for the nursing major's qualification exam included a psychometric analysis that allowed to assure its reliability, but they did not have content validity.
Objectives: To assess content validity of the bank of items of health area of the child and the adolescent.
Methods: The sample was made up by 114 closed-response items. A board of experts was formed and trained to carry out the validation process. The variables to be considered were: a) the items' coherence with the courses' objectives; b) complexity of the contents; and c) cognitive skills that are evaluated. This allowed us to characterize the set of items and identify the areas discovered in terms of coherence with the objectives of the courses in the area, the complexity of the items and the cognitive skills they address.
Results: Of the sheer number of items analyzed, 7 % (8) could be shown to classify as questionable item, so a cognitive interview was conducted in order to classify them; 56 % had a level of conceptual complexity, and 61 % corresponded to basic skills (remembering and understanding).
Conclusions: The results will be a contribution to motivate the future construction of items in the area of healthcare of the child and the adolescent and will establish a process to systematically continue with content validity of the content for the rest of the questions from the different areas of the bank of items.