2014
Kaplan Nursing
Northern Marianas College
Partnership Proposal
Tico Sandoval
Kaplan Nursing
6/27/2014
Partnership overview
Kaplan, Inc., acting through its Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions Division (Kaplan Nursing) looks forward
to its partnership with Northern Marianas College (NMC) to achieve the following goals:
1. Provide NMC students with the nation’s leading NCLEX-RN® Exam review course.
2. Empower NMC with both summative and formative evaluation tools in the form of Kaplan and
Lippincott, Wilkins and Williams (LWW)’s Integrated Testing with Remediation benchmark
testing program to achieve targeted goals such as minimizing attrition trends, supporting strong
matriculation, identifying content deficits, maintaining QSEN/Accreditation standards, qualifying
student candidates, and more.
3. Provide excellent support for NMC to ensure optimal utilization of Integrated Testing with
Remediation’s robust evaluative and reporting features. This includes the expert hands-on
service of an experienced nurse consultant who will work with NMC faculty to tailor the
program to NMC’s curriculum.
Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
More than 70 years ago, Kaplan pioneered the test prep industry. Today, as a division of The
Washington Post Company, Kaplan is the world leader in educational services. Through programs
ranging from high school and college admissions consulting to graduate school, professional licensing,
and English language training, we have helped more than four million individuals achieve their
educational and career goals.
As the world leader in test preparation, Kaplan offers unparalleled instruction for more than 90
standardized exams for professional licensing, college and graduate school admissions. Our
comprehensive menu of online offerings, extensive library of books, classroom-based courses, array of
private and small group tutoring programs and admissions consulting services have all proven successful
in helping students achieve their goals.
Kaplan Nursing Overview
Since 1982, Kaplan Nursing has been providing the nation’s leading NCLEX-RN® Exam Review.
Led by experienced nurse educators Dr. Susan Sanders, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, and Barbara Irwin, BSN,
Kaplan Nursing prepares more than 70,000 nursing students for the NCLEX-RN® exam each year, far
more than any other provider of NCLEX-RN® Exam review. With our partners LWW, our focus on
industry-leading service, great value and ease of use, we have also become the nation’s fastest growing
provider of benchmark and predictive testing for both RN and PN/VN programs.
Kaplan Nursing Partnership Proposal
Kaplan serves students of all ages, from first-graders learning to read to professionals seeking
postgraduate training. We have forged new territory in online higher education, K12 services and
professional training with innovation and imagination. Through new technologies and a personalized
approach to learning, Kaplan continues opening doors to educational opportunities and inspiring people
to strive for their personal best.
2
The cornerstone of the Kaplan Nursing curriculum is the Kaplan Decision tree, our unique critical
thinking framework based on clinical judgment. Throughout the duration of the review course, students
are asked to apply this framework to every question to strengthen their ability to think their way
through the NCLEX-RN® exams. Along with the Decision Tree, the nation’s leading NCLEX-RN® exam
preparation are also supplemented with the highest quality content, extensive practice resources and
Kaplan’s NCLEX-RN® test-taking expertise.
Program Description
Based on the goals expressed by your program, we recommend that your school consider
Kaplan’s Integrated Testing Deluxe program, which includes Integrated Testing and NCLEX-RN® Exam
Review. Our success has afforded us the ability to provide both national resources and local,
personalized service, much to the benefit of our customers. With our wide net of resources across the
country, a Kaplan representative is never out of reach. Our national technology support team will help
you set your students and faculty up – just send us your rosters and you’re ready to start using our
program. You will also receive personal, hands-on consultation services from Audrey Schou, MSN, RN,
an experienced nurse educator who will walk your faculty through every step of the way. This includes
our customization service; your nursing consultant will help you tailor the Integrated Testing program to
your curriculum, at no extra charge.
The program and service deliverables of this partnership include:
Program Component
Benefit
Admission Test
165 question test of basic reading, writing, math and science knowledge
that can be used as either an admission test or to help your faculty
evaluate incoming students, offered at no additional charge.
Transition Test
Exclusively designed to test knowledge gaps for “Bridge” programs for
LPN’s entering RN programs.
Secure, end-of-course
tests
Standard or customized to map to your unique curriculum, these 75-90
question tests are normed to national averages to help your students
and faculty gauge their performance.
Predictive Exit tests
Nursing Assessment Test* and the NCLEX Predictive Tests project
student NCLEX success at the end of their nursing program.


Online Remediation
Resources




3 levels of content remediation, complete with visuals,
accompanying all online tests;
38 thirty-question RN Focused Review practice tests to help
students target key subjects;
Search by Remediation topics for customized review;
Create customizable tests to help target weaker areas;
30 interactive Case Study modules to build critical thinking and
clinical reasoning skills;
9 Clinical Skills Modules designed to support concepts and
technique before/after class
Kaplan Nursing Partnership Proposal
Integrated Testing with Remediation
3
Kaplan Basics eBook
Individual Student
Reports
Aggregate Reports for
Faculty and
Administrators
500+ pages of easy-to-understand outlines, tables and graphs, focusing
on basic nursing content. E-reader download included
Allow students to track personal progress against the national average
(secure tests). Easy-to-use reports include: percent correct, percentile by
category, answer change analysis, time per question and level of
question difficultly.
Allow faculty to track progress against the national average (secure
tests). Easy-to-use reports include: percent correct, percentile by
category, answer change analysis, time per question and level of
question difficult by cohort and by individual student.
NCLEX-RN® Exam Review
21 hours of instruction
Benefit
Our expert faculty guide students through our question based review
course, focusing on critical thinking skills. Delivered in our state-of-theart Live Online classroom, your students will benefit from the flexibility
and convenience of our industry leading review.
Kaplan Decision Tree
Unique critical thinking framework will strengthen your students’ clinical
reasoning skills to teach them to think their way through the exam.
Diagnostic Exam
Combined with individualized feedback, this test will help your students
determined their strengths and weaknesses to help them create an
effective study plan.
Readiness Test
Online Question Trainer
Online Question Bank
Combined with individualized feedback, this test determines your
students level of readiness to take the NCLEX-RN® Exam
A database including over 1,000 questions, divided into seven practice
tests with individualized feedback will allow your students to practice
content knowledge, critical thinking skills, and test-taking endurance.
Over 1,300 exam style questions that can be assembled into practice
tests based on test plan areas will give students the targeted practice
they need. Complete rationales for all answer choices allow students to
ensure they followed the Decision Tree thinking patterns.
Online Study Center
3 months of access to exam-style questions, nursing content and ondemand videos, gives students adequate time to study for the exam.
Kaplan Course eBook
One book that covers frequently-tested subjects gives students an
efficient way to brush up on essential content. Includes test-taking
strategy guide and a customizable study timeline. E-reader download
included.
While it is against company policy to provide pass rates, we do believe that our success in
becoming the nation’s leading provider of NCLEX-RN exam review can be attributed to the success of
our students. Additionally, we can say with confidence that our students who do not go on to achieve
success on the nursing boards are by and large students who do not take advantage of the breadth and
depth of materials provided with each review course. We bolster this confidence by offering a pass
guarantee to all of our students.
Kaplan Nursing Partnership Proposal
Program Component
4
Implementation Overview
Integration of the Kaplan Integrated Testing resources follows two tracks once partnered with Kaplan:
the students and the faculty.
Student Integration
All Students that are enrolled within our IT Program will be activated by the submission of cohort
rosters. These will designate them into a cohort by month and year of graduation. As the students are
entered into the Kaplan system, they will be e-mailed a username and password which will provide
them their access to everything that they will be using in conjunction with Kaplan.
For each cohort, a Kaplan representative will come on campus and orient the students (Approximately
an hour) covering their materials, resources, and how to maximize their efficacy with our program and
their curriculum. These orientations will also consider/account for how faculty will be creating
assignments from the resources, scoring and/or points awarded for assignments and the Kaplan
representative will convey that information—so the students know ahead of time not to use any
material prior to the assignment if designated as such. For each new group of students in the ensuing
semesters, the format will be the same.
Note: It is often best to hold the faculty training/orientation prior to the student orientation to ensure proper
messaging of grading/assignments, etc.
Each cohort will also receive a secondary Orientation (When they graduate) which covers the NCLEX
Review Course, and strategy/preview to the course structure, expectations, and how to maximize
efficacy with their resources.
Initially, the Kaplan nursing consultant will meet with nursing faculty for the “Faculty Orientation”
(Approximately 2 hours) and ideally held in a computer lab, which will provide a hands-on review of all
of the student materials, as well as begin to strategize about how and where to best use the many
resources. The orientation will include reviewing the Kaplan study skills, the secured and practice tests,
the case studies, and the NCLEX resources. Each faculty member will also be enrolled into their own
student account so that will have all of the student assets available to them and understand the
“student perspective”. During this meeting the consultant will also instruct the faculty on how to
navigate the administrator site, how to access the scores following testing, and how to interpret that
data. And finally, at this meeting, the Consultant will help identify best-practices and discuss
implementation concepts for the school to adopt—and create a timeline for implementation based on
the feedback given by the faculty.
A note on Implementation: At the School’s discretion (but with Kaplan guidance), the faculty may opt to
integrate Kaplan’s resources in a multitude of ways. The consultant will provide topic blueprints by
subject, and provide insight into the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods. The faculty
may opt to meet with the consultant on a deeper level, and schedule meetings with individual or
departmental faculty to look at particular syllabi in conjunction with the secured and practice test
blueprints to evaluate which might be in closest alignment with those courses. Typically this is
Kaplan Nursing Partnership Proposal
Faculty Integration
5
scheduled after the initial faculty orientation, and implemented relatively quickly thereafter. (Due to
the nature of the individual or departmental needs, it is not possible to estimate the amount of time this
will take, however, Kaplan will do everything it can to ensure a thorough and complete orientation,
implementation and successful launch on the mutually agreed upon start date for the program.)
Later in the semester, the nursing consultant will reconvene with the faculty to review the testing that
has been done to date, the scores that you have accumulated, evaluate how the program is working,
and what more can be done to maximize its effectiveness.
Once the Kaplan Integrated Testing program has been fully integrated into the curriculum and the
program has been consistent for a period of time, the Kaplan nursing consultant will meet with the
faculty on a yearly basis (Or as warranted), to continue to guide faculty in using the program and be
available as a resource. If there is ever a need for further training or guidance, more frequent meetings
can be arranged.
Partnership Pricing and Terms
Kaplan Nursing is committed to ease-of-use, from our tests to our resources, down to our pricing. The
prices quoted below include all of the features above, with no hidden costs. Prices will be divided by the
number of terms remaining per student. Additionally, Kaplan can either collect payments from
Institution or directly from the Students individually. There is no additional fee for either option;
however it is necessary to designate which option will be followed within the terms of the agreement.
We propose the following pricing* schedule:
Integrated Testing
with Remediation
NCLEX-RN Exam
Review
IT Deluxe
(Integrated Testing +
NCLEX Exam Review)
Retail
Price per student
N/A
$500
N/A
NMC Price per
Student**
$250
$350
$500
Important Dates:
Projected service start date:
Term of Service
Spring/Fall 2015
2 Years
Tico Sandoval, Kaplan Nursing
Contact information:
tico.sandoval@kaplan.com
(213) 300-9187
Kaplan Nursing Partnership Proposal
*Pricing schedule does not reflect additional international travel expenses which may be required to
fulfill partnership goals.
**Current Students that have less terms towards graduation will be prorated
6