Quick question about SATA questions

[skillaz]

just have a quick question about the "select all that apply" questions. can a question like that have all the answers as an answer or only one as an answer? anyone ever come across something like this? would a question like that be fair or reasonable? ive been told by a professor that if its a select all that apply its always more then one and never all. is that true?

[CT Pixie, BSN, RN]

Not sure its always more than one. Not sure if your asking about the NCLEX questions or nursing school tests, but I know that several of our SATA during my nursing school had either just one of the answers as the correct one, or had all the answers.

Now, if the professor said its usually more than just one answer I'd have to agree, the majority of the time (as I said, strictly with MY nursing school tests) it was at least 2 of the available answers.

[JeanettePNP, MSN, RN, NP]

Just from my experience, I have encountered SATA questions that all the choices were correct, but never one that only one was correct. Doesn't mean it can't happen though.

[epinephRN]

If the instructor is using best practices it will never be all of the choices or only one of them. As an instructor, this was reinforced in several test question creation workshops I've attended.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

Select all that apply means just that: select all that apply. That means at least one answer is correct... so it may be just the one answer, all of them, or anything in between.

I've come across both of them, both in school and in NCLEX review books (I'll never know for certain if there was one on the NCLEX itself ). The one-answer SATAs always ticked me off more than the all-answer SATAs because you kind of expect that there could be a question with all answers as an option.