The impact of distance education on nursing students course performance in a sino-foreign cooperative program during the onset of COVID-19: a quasi-experimental study.
BMC Nurs
; 22(1): 16, 2023 Jan 13.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2196246
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The outbreak of COVID-19 changed many studies' teaching mode in higher education profoundly, including nursing. This study evaluated the impact of distance education on the course performance of nursing students in a nursing fundamentals course during the epidemic of COVID-19.METHODS:
This is a comparative prospective and retrospective quasi-experimental study. Nursing students in a Sino-foreign cooperative program were allocated to either an intervention group (distance education, n = 48) or control group (face-to-face teaching, n = 36). A self-efficacy questionnaire, an academic engagement scale and grades of the final written examination were used to evaluate the students' self-efficacy, academic engagement and academic performance, respectively. The data in this study were analyzed by two independent sample t-tests and the Chi-square test. Students experiencing distance teaching had worse academic performance (p = 0.001) and lower levels of learning behavior self-efficacy (p<0.05). The total score of academic engagement (p = 0.04) for students experiencing distance teaching were significantly lower than the scores of those students in the control group.CONCLUSIONS:
In the context of COVID-19, nursing students conducted using distance education had poor course performance.
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MEDLINE
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Language:
English
Journal:
BMC Nurs
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S12912-022-01136-1
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