• Marilyn H Oermann, Suzan Kardong-Edgren, and Mary Anne Rizzolo.
• J Nurs Educ. 2016 Jun 1; 55 (6): 323-8.

BackgroundSummative simulated-based assessments are intended to determine students' competence in practice. These assessments need to be carefully designed and implemented especially when the results are used to make high-stakes decisions.MethodCritical steps need to be followed to design simulations for summative assessment, ensure the validity of the assessment and reliability of the ratings, and train evaluators.ResultsGuidelines for using simulation for assessment in nursing are suggested. The guidelines are based on the literature and the authors' experiences from a project that examined the feasibility of using simulation for determining students' competence in performance at the end of the nursing program.ConclusionSummative simulation-based assessments need to be valid, measuring the knowledge and skills they are intended to, and reliable, with results being reproduced by different evaluators and by the same evaluator at another time. [J Nurs Educ. 2016;55(6):323-328.].Copyright 2016, SLACK Incorporated.

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