The Literature
Recent literature indicates that most commercially available standardized predictive tests provide
individual student scores that are linked to a probability of passing the NCLEX-RN. Research has
shown that while predictive tests often work well in identifying high-performing students who are
likely to pass the NCLEX, they are much less precise in identifying the likelihood of failure
(Spurlock, 2006; Spurlock and Hunt, 2008). This distinction in describing the accuracy of a test is