Hello friends, A LINCS member recently posed a question about the TEAS which is often used as an entrance exam for nursing programs. Does anyone have information about statistics showing how English learners fair on this test? If you have info on statistics or other helpful information, please see the discussion in the Adult English Language Learner Community and add to the conversation.
The TEAS is required of at least one LPN nursing program in my local area. Our adult education program has offered a class for many years that preps students for this assessment. Students need to be reading at a 6.9 level to get into the LPN prep class. The class focuses a lot on math since that is usually the students' greatest need, but also emphasizes academic reading.
Is TEAS used in your area? If not, what entrance exams are required for students pursuing nursing careers in your area? In what ways are you supporting students to gain entrance to these programs?
Cheers, Susan Finn Miller
Moderator, Assessment CoP
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We use the TEAS and until this semester had a course to help students prep for it. However, it's in that 10% of things that our dysfunctional state isn't forced to pay for without a budget, so it's cancelled and most of the staff fired. (Thinking is that nobody's going to even talk to each other until after the deadline for filing to run for election next year, so they know whether they have to please anybody to get re-elected, so that we won't even be talking about a budget 'til next year. Yea.)
(and just talked to our adult ed person who went to a state conference -- the only one, since there's no budget so none of the adult ed teachers could go. One of the speakers was the state's Secretary of Education, and she asked if there were any questions and he asked when there might be a budget, and she replied that yes, we're "on a precipice" but she was hoping things would work out. When he talked to her afterward and explained that the 30 teachers who could not come were very stressed because they didn't know when they'd stop getting paid -- but that it could happen tomorrow -- she told him that she sympathized, and that the only thing that would help would be if teachers stopped being quiet and following orders, and started becoming activists.
Now, she could have said that to all those teachers and administrators, but I guess she's one of those people too busy being quiet and following orders. However, everybody else is supposed to become activists. )