Performance on the Philippine Nurses’ Licensure Examination: Variability and Roughness Analysis

Authors

  • Melvin R. de Castro University of San Jose-Recoletos
  • Tonette M. Villanueva University of San Jose-Recoletos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32871/rmrj1402.01.15

Keywords:

fractal analysis, fractal dimension, school performance, below and above national passing percentage, Philippine Nurses’ Licensure Examination (PNLE)

Abstract

The study compares the fractal dimensions of the board examination percentage scores for nursing graduates in June 2012 and December 2012. The purpose of such a comparison is to assess the ruggedness or roughness of the scores over the two assessment periods. The more rugged the scores viz. higher fractal dimensions, implies the variability of the students’ performance. Results revealed that the June, 2012 test scores have higher fractal dimension than the December, 2012 test scores. The paper concludes that students behavior pertinent to the assessment varies in June than December PNLE. This is in contrast to the usual notion that it is with test difficulty where disparity of performance takes place. The author deduced some observations minimizing such disparity.

Author Biographies

Melvin R. de Castro, University of San Jose-Recoletos

is a Registered Nurse, graduated from St. Paul University Dumaguete, Philippines in 2007. He worked as full time faculty at the College of Nursing, University of San Jose-Recoletos from 2008 until present. He also finished his Master of Science in Nursing major in Medical Surgical Nursing in March 2011 at Cebu Normal University. He is also a licensed teacher graduated with Diploma in Professional Secondary Education at Cebu Normal University. He is currently a doctorand candidate in Doctor of Science in Nursing major in Gerontology Nursing at Cebu Normal University. He also presented research studies locally and internationally such as De La Salle University-Manila, College of St. Benilde, La Consolacion University of the Philippines in Malolos, Bulacan and Cebu Normal University during the 2nd International Conference for Nursing Students (ICONS). He bagged Best in Podium Presentation at Cebu Normal University during its 2nd University Research Congress in June 2012.

Tonette M. Villanueva, University of San Jose-Recoletos

is a Professional Teacher and a Registered Nurse, graduated from Nursing Department, University of the Visayas in 2005. He received his Masters in Nursing at Cebu Normal University in 2010. Currently, he is doing his dissertation in Ph.D. in Education Major in Research and Evaluation. He teaches at he University of San Jose- Recoletos since 2006. He handles the following subjects: Psychiatric Nursing, Elective, Nursing Research and Related learning experience. Since 2011, he became one of the research anchors of the College of Nursing. He presented some of his studies in national and international academic conferences.

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Published

2014-06-30

How to Cite

de Castro, M. R., & Villanueva, T. M. (2014). Performance on the Philippine Nurses’ Licensure Examination: Variability and Roughness Analysis. Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.32871/rmrj1402.01.15

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2014)

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