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What are your thoughts on a teacher making their tests from a different textbook than assigned to the students for the class? We are assigned Taylor's Fundamentals of Nursing but the teacher makes tests using a test bank from Perry & Potter's Fundamentals of Nursing. Is this fair to student?

As long as you're being tested on material that was covered in the course and you are responsible for learning, what difference does it make where the questions came from? Some instructors write their own tests. When I've taught, I've used a number of difference sources for test questions.

Now, if you're being tested on material you weren't responsible for learning in the class, that's a different matter.

No it's not fair. Happened to our class and we all failed. Teacher never did it again. She used a book that had material our book never touched on. And the things it did touch on, the book we had used different answers.

Really? It's fundamentals of nursing... what huge differences would there be? this has me totally stumped

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Really? It's fundamentals of nursing... what huge differences would there be? this has me totally stumped

All the books are pretty much identical...just written differently. I don think it would make a luck of difference.

Really? It's fundamentals of nursing... what huge differences would there be? this has me totally stumped
Well I'm talking about med surg. I didn't see that she was talking about fundamentals. Got a question about teaching about stroke. My book had a different answer than wherever my teacher got it from about how to teach them to hold their head when swallowing. 2 totally different answers.
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No it's not fair. Happened to our class and we all failed. Teacher never did it again. She used a book that had material our book never touched on. And the things it did touch on, the book we had used different answers.

So after failing the NCLEX do you expect to call the administrators of that that exam and say "not fair...there were some questions that did not come directly from the text we used!?"

... That's why I practice questions from MULTIPLE SOURCES.

Go to Barnes and noble. Sit your butt down and grab all the fundamentals books and answer the questions out of those books. If you can answer those, you're golden.

Sorry to sound rude but seriously. No one takes my word for this but 1) Barnes and noble won't care - just put them back to not make anyone upset. 2) it's free? 3) takes a couple hours 4) got me 90+ on my tests

Ok done.

I go to B&N frequently, many times i've looked for a particular book and did not find it in the nursing section (even after checking online to make sure it was in stock). That had happened frequently and I never thought to ask anyone to double check to see if they had it in the back. After many times of this happening, I went to a worker.

The books were in the front behind the register, you had to ask to see them. The reason for particular books being back there (the NCLEX books, the fundementals books, other text books) is because of the thing you said above. They had nursing students going to the store, grabbing a book and sitting for hours reading it or doing homework from it. They DO care. It isn't a library, its a business. They care you are using them as a library and not paying for the books you are using over and over.

How do you even know that?... .

Inquiring minds want to know!

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Then why does B &N make their stores so darn comfy if they don't want you lounging around reading their books?

Then why does B &N make their stores so darn comfy if they don't want you lounging around reading their books?

The way it was explained to me is that they don't mind people sitting and reading for a bit, but when the same people come in day after day, sitting for hours reading the same books and obviously having a study session, doing homework etc, that's where they draw the line.

So after failing the NCLEX do you expect to call the administrators of that that exam and say "not fair...there were some questions that did not come directly from the text we used!?"

Nope. Didn't say that at all. And no I wouldn't do that. And how did we get on NCLEX? I'm just answering the question from the OP.

And I thought she was talking about med surg. Not fundamentals. I don't go around carrying 6 books just in case a teacher decides she wants to pull questions from elsewhere. When we test, my teachers tell me show in the book where it says xyz. When we contest test answers, we have to have proof from the book that what we studied backs us up. When my teacher used a different book, she just made the work harder for herself. People were going to her desk with the textbook we bought (that is required from the program and told to study 6 chapters from) showing her discrepancies.

So when you're told to study 7-8 chapters from a book and you pull it from another edition from years ago and from a book you didn't study from then no, I don't think it's fair. We can agree to disagree my dear. :)

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I don't go around carrying 6 books just in case a teacher decides she wants to pull questions from elsewhere.

We can agree to disagree my dear. :)

I guess I am old school (or just plain old), but from day 1 in nursing school, we were told about the NCLEX...and they take that exam from a lot more than 6 books. I understand the issue if the teachers' answers directly contradict those answers from the assigned texts, but it is necessary to pull information from more than one source.

Also, I'm not really a fan of someone addressing me as "my dear" :angrybird10:.

I agree. Students pay a fortune for one text only to discover the teachers using another is wrong. Fundamentals can vary because nursing isn't cut and dry. That teacher needs to update her syllabus to the new text.

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