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Nursing Education Research Conference 2020, Mar 27, 2020
Nurse Education in Practice, Nov 1, 2015
Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply... more Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply concepts learned in class, practice skills learned in lab, and interact with patients, families, and other nurses. Although students look forward to these experiences, they often feel intimated and anxious about them. Clinical instructors play an important role in this experience and can either help or hinder student learning and self-efficacy. Using Bandura's Social Learning Theory as foundation, this descriptive study examined the relationship between perceived instructor effectiveness and student self-efficacy. Data were collected from a BSN school of nursing at a Midwestern USA comprehensive masters university. The instruments used were the Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory (NCTEI) and the student self-efficacy (SSE) questionnaire. Participants (n = 236) were from a traditional nursing program with 86% female and 14% male. Data was analyzed using Pearson's correlation and MANCOVA. Results indicated: Out of the five areas of attributes, one area showed significant (p < .01) difference between the lower and higher self-efficacy groups and with specific teacher behaviors within the Evaluation category. Students with high self-efficacy reported faculty who suggested ways to improve, identified strengths and weaknesses, observed frequently, communicated expectations, gives positive reinforcement ad corrects without belittling. This can help faculty develop behaviors that increases student learning and student self-efficacy.
Journal of nursing & care, 2013
The study was designed to address the reliability and validity evidence that supports the Student... more The study was designed to address the reliability and validity evidence that supports the Student Self-Efficacy scale. The scale measures student self-efficacy related to didactic course work. Face and content validity were measured by expert educators and researchers with the feedback that the questionnaire was clear and addressed the skills needed to measure student self-efficacy in the classroom. The scale was administered to 65 nursing students in two courses, one sophomore level and one junior level. The Student Self-Efficacy (SSE) Scale was compared to the well established General Self-Efficacy (GSE) Scale to assess the concurrent criterion-related validity. A highly significant correlation of r = 0.70 was found between the two scales. The scores of both questionnaires were also compared with demographic variables and no correlation or significant difference was found with the exception of lower student self-efficacy in male students. A Principal Component Analysis of GSE and SSE and a comparison with a larger U.S. sample on GSE delivered first indication of a one-dimensional construct. The findings indicate the SSE does in fact measure the construct under study and is a reliable and valid scale. Implications for further research and fields of applications are discussed.
International journal for human caring, Apr 1, 2007
International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, Jan 12, 2010
Developing and implementing a positive psychosocial environment should be one of the main respons... more Developing and implementing a positive psychosocial environment should be one of the main responsibilities of educators. As educators influence the climate, learning is enhanced or hindered. Therefore educators need to understand their own teaching perspectives and how they in turn influence the classroom. Data were collected from nurse educators and BSN nursing students. The relationship between faculty teaching perspectives and the students' perceptions of the learning environment was examined. The data collection tool used to measure the educators' perspective was the Instructional Perspective Inventory (IPI), and to measure the students' perspective was the Adult Classroom Environment Scale (ACES). A MANCOVA was used to determine the relationship and significant differences between educators' and students' perspectives. The results indicated that the teachers in the high group of teacher responsiveness had students who reported greater teacher support, time on task, focus, organization, clarity of subject content, involvement, and satisfaction.
Physiology
Flipped teaching is a practical instructional method where the lecture is shifted out of the clas... more Flipped teaching is a practical instructional method where the lecture is shifted out of the classroom, thus allowing time for rehearsing and mastering the content through in-class activities and formative assessments. Innovative Flipped Learning Instructional Project or IFLIP is a pilot study involving faculty and their students of rural nursing programs to develop clinical judgment and critical thinking skills essential to enter the healthcare workforce to serve their communities. Most students in these rural programs are marginalized, under-resourced, and come from underserved high schools. Rural nursing programs may also need more resources to provide faculty training in innovative student-centered teaching methods to develop classroom activities and promote clinical judgment. The instructional approach of the faculty before and after the proposed faculty development training was assessed using surveys and course design data. Through rigorous mixed-methods research, the study me...
STTI/NLN Nursing Education Research Conference, Apr 5, 2014
Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply... more Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply concepts learned in class, practice skills learned in lab, and interact with patients, families, and other nurses. Although students look forward to these experiences, they often feel intimated and anxious about them. Clinical instructors play an important role in this experience and can either help or hinder student learning and self-efficacy. Using Bandura's Social Learning Theory as foundation, this descriptive study examined the relationship between perceived instructor effectiveness and student self-efficacy. Data were collected from a BSN school of nursing at a Midwestern USA comprehensive masters university. The instruments used were the Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory (NCTEI) and the student self-efficacy (SSE) questionnaire. Participants (n = 236) were from a traditional nursing program with 86% female and 14% male. Data was analyzed using Pearson's correlation and MANCOVA. Results indicated: Out of the five areas of attributes, one area showed significant (p < .01) difference between the lower and higher self-efficacy groups and with specific teacher behaviors within the Evaluation category. Students with high self-efficacy reported faculty who suggested ways to improve, identified strengths and weaknesses, observed frequently, communicated expectations, gives positive reinforcement ad corrects without belittling. This can help faculty develop behaviors that increases student learning and student self-efficacy.
International Journal of Human Caring, 2007
Nurse Education in Practice, 2015
Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply... more Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply concepts learned in class, practice skills learned in lab, and interact with patients, families, and other nurses. Although students look forward to these experiences, they often feel intimated and anxious about them. Clinical instructors play an important role in this experience and can either help or hinder student learning and self-efficacy. Using Bandura's Social Learning Theory as foundation, this descriptive study examined the relationship between perceived instructor effectiveness and student self-efficacy. Data were collected from a BSN school of nursing at a Midwestern USA comprehensive masters university. The instruments used were the Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory (NCTEI) and the student self-efficacy (SSE) questionnaire. Participants (n = 236) were from a traditional nursing program with 86% female and 14% male. Data was analyzed using Pearson's correlation and MANCOVA. Results indicated: Out of the five areas of attributes, one area showed significant (p < .01) difference between the lower and higher self-efficacy groups and with specific teacher behaviors within the Evaluation category. Students with high self-efficacy reported faculty who suggested ways to improve, identified strengths and weaknesses, observed frequently, communicated expectations, gives positive reinforcement ad corrects without belittling. This can help faculty develop behaviors that increases student learning and student self-efficacy.
International journal of nursing education scholarship, 2010
Developing and implementing a positive psychosocial environment should be one of the main respons... more Developing and implementing a positive psychosocial environment should be one of the main responsibilities of educators. As educators influence the climate, learning is enhanced or hindered. Therefore educators need to understand their own teaching perspectives and how they in turn influence the classroom. Data were collected from nurse educators and BSN nursing students. The relationship between faculty teaching perspectives and the students' perceptions of the learning environment was examined. The data collection tool used to measure the educators' perspective was the Instructional Perspective Inventory (IPI), and to measure the students' perspective was the Adult Classroom Environment Scale (ACES). A MANCOVA was used to determine the relationship and significant differences between educators' and students' perspectives. The results indicated that the teachers in the high group of teacher responsiveness had students who reported greater teacher support, time o...
The journal of nursing care, 2013
The study was designed to address the reliability and validity evidence that supports the Student... more The study was designed to address the reliability and validity evidence that supports the Student Self-Efficacy scale. The scale measures student self-efficacy related to didactic course work. Face and content validity were measured by expert educators and researchers with the feedback that the questionnaire was clear and addressed the skills needed to measure student self-efficacy in the classroom. The scale was administered to 65 nursing students in two courses, one sophomore level and one junior level. The Student Self-Efficacy (SSE) Scale was compared to the well established General Self-Efficacy (GSE) Scale to assess the concurrent criterion-related validity. A highly significant correlation of r = 0.70 was found between the two scales. The scores of both questionnaires were also compared with demographic variables and no correlation or significant difference was found with the exception of lower student self-efficacy in male students. A Principal Component Analysis of GSE and ...
Nursing Education Research Conference 2020, Mar 27, 2020
Nurse Education in Practice, Nov 1, 2015
Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply... more Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply concepts learned in class, practice skills learned in lab, and interact with patients, families, and other nurses. Although students look forward to these experiences, they often feel intimated and anxious about them. Clinical instructors play an important role in this experience and can either help or hinder student learning and self-efficacy. Using Bandura's Social Learning Theory as foundation, this descriptive study examined the relationship between perceived instructor effectiveness and student self-efficacy. Data were collected from a BSN school of nursing at a Midwestern USA comprehensive masters university. The instruments used were the Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory (NCTEI) and the student self-efficacy (SSE) questionnaire. Participants (n = 236) were from a traditional nursing program with 86% female and 14% male. Data was analyzed using Pearson's correlation and MANCOVA. Results indicated: Out of the five areas of attributes, one area showed significant (p < .01) difference between the lower and higher self-efficacy groups and with specific teacher behaviors within the Evaluation category. Students with high self-efficacy reported faculty who suggested ways to improve, identified strengths and weaknesses, observed frequently, communicated expectations, gives positive reinforcement ad corrects without belittling. This can help faculty develop behaviors that increases student learning and student self-efficacy.
Journal of nursing & care, 2013
The study was designed to address the reliability and validity evidence that supports the Student... more The study was designed to address the reliability and validity evidence that supports the Student Self-Efficacy scale. The scale measures student self-efficacy related to didactic course work. Face and content validity were measured by expert educators and researchers with the feedback that the questionnaire was clear and addressed the skills needed to measure student self-efficacy in the classroom. The scale was administered to 65 nursing students in two courses, one sophomore level and one junior level. The Student Self-Efficacy (SSE) Scale was compared to the well established General Self-Efficacy (GSE) Scale to assess the concurrent criterion-related validity. A highly significant correlation of r = 0.70 was found between the two scales. The scores of both questionnaires were also compared with demographic variables and no correlation or significant difference was found with the exception of lower student self-efficacy in male students. A Principal Component Analysis of GSE and SSE and a comparison with a larger U.S. sample on GSE delivered first indication of a one-dimensional construct. The findings indicate the SSE does in fact measure the construct under study and is a reliable and valid scale. Implications for further research and fields of applications are discussed.
International journal for human caring, Apr 1, 2007
International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, Jan 12, 2010
Developing and implementing a positive psychosocial environment should be one of the main respons... more Developing and implementing a positive psychosocial environment should be one of the main responsibilities of educators. As educators influence the climate, learning is enhanced or hindered. Therefore educators need to understand their own teaching perspectives and how they in turn influence the classroom. Data were collected from nurse educators and BSN nursing students. The relationship between faculty teaching perspectives and the students' perceptions of the learning environment was examined. The data collection tool used to measure the educators' perspective was the Instructional Perspective Inventory (IPI), and to measure the students' perspective was the Adult Classroom Environment Scale (ACES). A MANCOVA was used to determine the relationship and significant differences between educators' and students' perspectives. The results indicated that the teachers in the high group of teacher responsiveness had students who reported greater teacher support, time on task, focus, organization, clarity of subject content, involvement, and satisfaction.
Physiology
Flipped teaching is a practical instructional method where the lecture is shifted out of the clas... more Flipped teaching is a practical instructional method where the lecture is shifted out of the classroom, thus allowing time for rehearsing and mastering the content through in-class activities and formative assessments. Innovative Flipped Learning Instructional Project or IFLIP is a pilot study involving faculty and their students of rural nursing programs to develop clinical judgment and critical thinking skills essential to enter the healthcare workforce to serve their communities. Most students in these rural programs are marginalized, under-resourced, and come from underserved high schools. Rural nursing programs may also need more resources to provide faculty training in innovative student-centered teaching methods to develop classroom activities and promote clinical judgment. The instructional approach of the faculty before and after the proposed faculty development training was assessed using surveys and course design data. Through rigorous mixed-methods research, the study me...
STTI/NLN Nursing Education Research Conference, Apr 5, 2014
Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply... more Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply concepts learned in class, practice skills learned in lab, and interact with patients, families, and other nurses. Although students look forward to these experiences, they often feel intimated and anxious about them. Clinical instructors play an important role in this experience and can either help or hinder student learning and self-efficacy. Using Bandura's Social Learning Theory as foundation, this descriptive study examined the relationship between perceived instructor effectiveness and student self-efficacy. Data were collected from a BSN school of nursing at a Midwestern USA comprehensive masters university. The instruments used were the Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory (NCTEI) and the student self-efficacy (SSE) questionnaire. Participants (n = 236) were from a traditional nursing program with 86% female and 14% male. Data was analyzed using Pearson's correlation and MANCOVA. Results indicated: Out of the five areas of attributes, one area showed significant (p < .01) difference between the lower and higher self-efficacy groups and with specific teacher behaviors within the Evaluation category. Students with high self-efficacy reported faculty who suggested ways to improve, identified strengths and weaknesses, observed frequently, communicated expectations, gives positive reinforcement ad corrects without belittling. This can help faculty develop behaviors that increases student learning and student self-efficacy.
International Journal of Human Caring, 2007
Nurse Education in Practice, 2015
Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply... more Clinical practicum experiences for nursing students provides the students an opportunity to apply concepts learned in class, practice skills learned in lab, and interact with patients, families, and other nurses. Although students look forward to these experiences, they often feel intimated and anxious about them. Clinical instructors play an important role in this experience and can either help or hinder student learning and self-efficacy. Using Bandura's Social Learning Theory as foundation, this descriptive study examined the relationship between perceived instructor effectiveness and student self-efficacy. Data were collected from a BSN school of nursing at a Midwestern USA comprehensive masters university. The instruments used were the Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory (NCTEI) and the student self-efficacy (SSE) questionnaire. Participants (n = 236) were from a traditional nursing program with 86% female and 14% male. Data was analyzed using Pearson's correlation and MANCOVA. Results indicated: Out of the five areas of attributes, one area showed significant (p < .01) difference between the lower and higher self-efficacy groups and with specific teacher behaviors within the Evaluation category. Students with high self-efficacy reported faculty who suggested ways to improve, identified strengths and weaknesses, observed frequently, communicated expectations, gives positive reinforcement ad corrects without belittling. This can help faculty develop behaviors that increases student learning and student self-efficacy.
International journal of nursing education scholarship, 2010
Developing and implementing a positive psychosocial environment should be one of the main respons... more Developing and implementing a positive psychosocial environment should be one of the main responsibilities of educators. As educators influence the climate, learning is enhanced or hindered. Therefore educators need to understand their own teaching perspectives and how they in turn influence the classroom. Data were collected from nurse educators and BSN nursing students. The relationship between faculty teaching perspectives and the students' perceptions of the learning environment was examined. The data collection tool used to measure the educators' perspective was the Instructional Perspective Inventory (IPI), and to measure the students' perspective was the Adult Classroom Environment Scale (ACES). A MANCOVA was used to determine the relationship and significant differences between educators' and students' perspectives. The results indicated that the teachers in the high group of teacher responsiveness had students who reported greater teacher support, time o...
The journal of nursing care, 2013
The study was designed to address the reliability and validity evidence that supports the Student... more The study was designed to address the reliability and validity evidence that supports the Student Self-Efficacy scale. The scale measures student self-efficacy related to didactic course work. Face and content validity were measured by expert educators and researchers with the feedback that the questionnaire was clear and addressed the skills needed to measure student self-efficacy in the classroom. The scale was administered to 65 nursing students in two courses, one sophomore level and one junior level. The Student Self-Efficacy (SSE) Scale was compared to the well established General Self-Efficacy (GSE) Scale to assess the concurrent criterion-related validity. A highly significant correlation of r = 0.70 was found between the two scales. The scores of both questionnaires were also compared with demographic variables and no correlation or significant difference was found with the exception of lower student self-efficacy in male students. A Principal Component Analysis of GSE and ...