The Psychometric Coach: Architecting Pedagogical Safety in Nursing Assessment

Описание: Welcome to my design defense for the Psychometric Coach. In nursing education, high-stakes assessment is fundamentally about public safety. We must ensure our graduates are clinically competent, which requires our exams to be statistically sound and highly defensible.

In this presentation, I introduce an adaptive generative AI architecture designed specifically to elevate faculty competence in item analysis (specifically p-values and point-biserial correlations). I demonstrate how strict, engineered guardrails can actively protect and enhance student learning by safely mentoring the novice educators who teach them. By shifting the AI from a disruptive "Calculator" to a structured "Co-Pilot," this architecture enforces productive struggle and prevents the GenAI from bypassing the learning process.

Key Concepts Covered:
The Pedagogical Problem: Why novice test writers default to the "Chauffeur" AI shortcut.

The Rigor Fallacy: Correcting the dangerous assumption that a "hard" question is inherently a "good" question.

-The White Box Architecture: A look under the hood at the Inner and Outer Loops that drive diagnostic remediation.

Safety Guardrails: How Pedagogical Safety (Proof of Work) and Cognitive Safety (Anti-Sycophancy) protect institutional rigor.

Presented By:
Jennie C. De Gagne, PhD, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, CNE, ANEF, FAAN
Duke University School of Nursing

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