All nurses who did not pass NCLEX...

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****o there...

My name is Margo and I thought it might be somehow useful to all of us (nurses with "did not pass" sign) to learn from each other's experience about such thing as "failing NCLEX for the first, second or third time".
Did your performance become better or worse from first, second or third exams? What are your thoughts about test process?
Thank you for your reading of this thread "

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"When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest." ~Author Unknown

Is there a small chance that the failing rate is not by chance, created for a reason.

Review this, I have contacted Senator Levin Michigan about my research
http://www.newfoundations.com/CurrPr...Mackey.htmlThe National Council Licensing Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) is a standardized test, which all graduates of nursing programs must pass in order to practice as a Registered Nurse. Prior to 1988, the passing rate for first time test takers was 91%. In 1989, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing established a higher passing standard. The passing rate for first-time candidates then dropped to 84%. There has been a significant drop in passing rates for NCLEX- RN's since 1994.

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Anthony Zara, Ph.D.
Vice President
NCS Pearson

Dr. Zara has almost 20 years experience working with computer-based testing. He spent 13 years in various capacities with the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc., including directing the organization's testing and research departments. Under Dr. Zara's leadership, the National Council converted the national nurse licensing examination program in the U.S. (the NCLEX ® Examination) from paper-and-pencil to computerized adaptive testing. Currently, Dr. Zara is responsible for heading up NCS Pearson's electronic testing programs for the professional licensing and certification market.

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http://www.fireflysun.com/book/New_F...Commission.php A Presidential Commission on Mental Health has the support and funding from Congress to subject your child, without your consent, to mandatory mental health screening in the public schools.



Psychoanalyzing the Public ~ by Beverly K. Eakman http://www.beverlye.com/200401131957.html
http://www.learn-usa.com/education_t...ealth_care.htm

The Medicaid Connection

Every child in America entering school at the age of 5 is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future.

—Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Psychiatrist, in his address at the 1973 Childhood International Education Seminar.

The following is part of a letter sent out to the Nine Mile Falls School District Community in 1995:

In 1994, the Clinton's attempt to impose universal health care was defeated. Although the Clinton's did lament this defeat to some degree, they did not do so with the rancor that would suggest that the battle had been lost. And it wasn't. Universal health care is being "backdoored" into the schools, through Medicaid, as you will see in reading the documents that follow. In the 1995 Legislative session, SB 5276 changed all references in Washington Code (RCW's) from "handicapped" to "children with disabilities" which carries a much broader definition. Eventually, all children will be labeled "learning disabled". This will make them eligible for a wide variety of Medicaid services, and all school districts eligible to received Medicaid funds. You will see, in reading the documents that follow, the incentive to schools and physicians to get children on the Medicaid dole.

Two years ago, in September, 1993, Nine Mile Falls School District applied for Readiness to Learn grant money administered by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The 21-month grant, for $101,790, was selected by the Family Policy Council. This year I have heard from parents about personality profiles being done on children; I have heard from parents being pressured to establish Individual Education Plans (IEP's) for their children; I have heard from parents who have found derogatory and unsubstantiated information, damaging to the family, placed in their child's school files. This all fits the scenario.

. . . Parents, for the sake of your children, your family, please get involved, find out what is going on. If you do nothing, you may not like what will be done for you, and to you and your child, over which you will have no control or recourse. [Signed] Lynn M Stuter

This letter was followed by documents concerning the Desert Quest program in Kennewick School District in Washington state; documents that laid out how a class of fourth (4th) grade students were subjected to behavioral risk assessments. These assessments, which contained personally identifiable information, were given to a psychiatric center without parental knowledge or consent. A parent, appointed to the Desert Quest Study Committee, charged with investigating the matter, found that the rules of the committee kept the committee from addressing financial or legal issues. The parent could not understand why the constraints and began investigating. What the parent uncovered was shocking evidence regarding the foundations and intent of this program; evidence that was turned over to the Washington State Legislature; and about which the Washington State Legislature did nothing.

It is now 1999, and where does this situation stand, not only in this school district, but all across the United States of America? The links to the left give the reader a full picture of why Medicaid can be found in their local school and what it means for EVERY child attending government schools.

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The Continental Group

OPERATION WHITECOAT launched it’s initial phase of operations January 27-29, 2004 in Washington, DC. Lake Hospital Systems Chief of Staff Dr. Dan Cudnik, along with Dr. Ed Hissa, Dr. David Demagone and Russian American Medical Association President Dr. Boris Vinogradsky were led by Continental Group consultants Jeff Ziegler and Gary Humble in an ongoing effort to
fundamentally change the way Medicare does business.


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Using the Delphi Technique to Achieve Consensus
How it is leading us away from representative government to an illusion of citizen participation

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WHAT IS A PSYCHOMETRICIAN AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO YOU!



By Jeffrey W. Hills

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Have you been filling out applications for employment lately and finding yourself explaining your inter personal relationships with family and friends with Computer Adaptive Testing.



Questions on how you felt as a child, how you felt in school, have you argued with your wife lately?



Asked by a friend of this author?



“What does this have to do with driving a semi for a large American Made Motorcycle Manufacture”



My reply was “maybe the Human Resource Department has worries you might start thinking of a argument you had when you were sixteen and you wanted to go to a high school function, but you had to tend to the garden, you might start crying and wreck the truck, destroying the load, you know you are fifty and getting a little fuzzy.



Its still up in the air if my friend is hired, he refused to fill out the Computer Adaptive Test / survey / personality test.



A hidden physiological exam written by a Psychometric, a pre-employment screener, a Mind Monkey just checking on your bananas, or if you might go bananas at some later date.



Sure it’s a concern if Joe worker is a popcorn kernel, but is it Uncle Joe Stalin with a six year Ph.d in Psychological studies who writes the psychological personality survey test? A good attorney never asks a question unless the answer is already known, a Psychometrician writes one question with four right answers and you pick his best pick.



In a modern capitalist society dinnertime news unemployment rates are just a statistic without an individual reason. But like Uncle Joe said” one person killed is murder, millions are just statistics”.



No Child Left Behind in a computer lab survey, big box retailers take a computer Survey before hiring. It’s the middle of the road child that makes a good candidate for the future work force. It’s the middle of the road employee that goes along to get along. Exams have a new meaning, Examinations!



“There’s gold in them types,” said the prospector gathering the inner workings of the psyche.



Two plus two makes three if the question is worded right in this standardized test or is it an individualized test

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-adaptive_test CAT successively selects questions so as to maximize the precision of the exam, based on what is known about the examinee from previous questions. From the examinee's perspective, the difficulty of the exam seems to tailor itself to their level of ability. For example, if an examinee performs well on an item of intermediate difficulty, he will then be presented with a more difficult question. Or, if he performed poorly, he would be presented with a simpler question. Compared to static multiple choice tests, computer-adaptive tests require fewer test items to arrive at equally accurate scores. Nothing is known about the examinee prior to the administration of the first item, so the algorithm is generally started by selecting an item of medium, or medium-easy, difficulty as the first item.

The only people that won’t have these psychometric exams will be politicians, nor will they have drug testing like many American workers in minimum wage jobs, but Joe or Jolene doesn’t have his or her finger on the nuclear button do they.



A huge testing ground for Psychometrician’s, working for local school districts K thru 12, SAT, employers, military (DARPA), worldwide industries, universities, colleges, questions give a multitude of answers to these standardized tests.

Even personality tests for websites that promise (a mate you know so well before they know you)!



Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Rasch Measurement multicomponent latent trait models for complex tasks, exemplary psychometric work for analyzing the meaning of response latencies in a personality, these online exams might bring true love, or order out of chaos!



Leaders in the Computer Adaptive Technologies, The Chauncey Group, International Educational Testing Service (ETS), NCS Pearson, Pearson VUE Computer Adaptive Technologies, Inc. (CAT), Galton Technologies, Prometric, a Thomson Learning business.



One field of this CAT testing that has grown quickly is in the healthcare field.



NCLEX® Examination for state licensing exams ©2006 National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. (NCSBN) All Rights Reserved.



The passing rate of the NCLEX® Examination varies from state to state, (NCSBN) claims around eighty six percent pass the exam the first time out of eighty thousand students, forty percent pass the second exam, seven percent the third time, the rest which is a sizable amount just give up, and at two hundred dollars or more for each test the educated unemployed struggle, wondering why they cant pass a entry level test after two or four years of college.



The fifteen to twenty-five percent that fail and passing students of the NCLEX® Examination reported that test questions cannot be understood of what is being asked, most just guess.



So much for critical thinking skills, or is it social engineering at its finest.



If you do not pass the exam you cannot be employed in the healthcare field as a RN, maybe a overqualified tech if you’re not to overqualified for the job.



The National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. is now designing a class to train on how to take tests.



Graduating students trained by RN instructors, final exams written by RNs, can now learn test taking skills to pass the NCLEX® Examination that has skills and abilities content supplied by RNs, that is given to the nursing board of RNs, that give the information to a one hundred thousand dollar a year PSYCHOMETRICIAN to write questions that Nursing RN Graduate Students guess at to pass a state license exam, to relieve a nursing shortage.



And don’t expect your state rep or senator to know how these boards or organizations are handing out or not handing out a state license, the government just gives out the big appropriations to them, and a formal complaint is just that, formal.



Testing to Expand Internationally through Pearson Professional Centers in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico and Taiwan.



A helping hand to fill the large nursing shortage came with the Bush Administration in 2005 opening fifty thousand international nursing student visas to fill the gap.



Hospitals received some new foreign employees, the road foreign students may take to arrive in the U.S. can be found at http://www.nascocorridor.com/index.htm).



Testing is expanding into all field from massage therapist to CPAs, personality tests are finding their way to food service to banking and one is coming to your town soon, or is already there.



From http://en.getsearchinformation.info/Psychological

Psychological the root of the word psychology (psyche) means "soul" in Greek, and psychology was sometimes considered a study of the soul (in a religious sense of this term). Psychology as a medical discipline can be seen in Thomas Willis' reference to psychology (the "Doctrine of the Soul") in terms of brain function, as part of his 1672 anatomical treatise "De Anima Brutorum" ("Two Discourses on the Souls of Brutes").



Research from http://en.getsearchinformation.info/Psychometrics

Psychometrics is the field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement, which includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.



Research Also http://en.getsearchinformation.info/Personality Personality psychology is a branch of psychology which studies personality and individual different processes - that which makes us into a person. One emphasis is on trying to create a coherent picture of a person and all his or her major psychological processes.



http://allnurses.com NCLEX Personality Test discussion forum

http://www.fairtest.org

http://www.pearsonvue.com/

http://www.ncsbn.org.

http://www.ncsbn.org/resources/publications.asp

ERI http://www.eriworld.com/rncat.asp

Rasch: http://home.att.net/~rsmith.arm/jam-press.htm

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