COLLABORATIVE TEACHING IN DEGREE COMPLETION BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMS FOR REGISTERED NURSES.
Contributors: Northern Illinois University.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Education, Philosophy of.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This study investigated a sample of 64 nurse educators in 17 randomly selected Degree-Completion Baccalaureate Nursing Programs in the United States. Adhering to an ex post facto design, the investigation examined the relationship between the independent variables of age, years of teaching experience, educational background, written philosophy of teaching-learning and the dependent variable of acceptance and support of adult learning principles by nurse educators.

The dependent variable of acceptance and practice of adult learning principles which support the collaborative teaching-learning mode was measured by the Principles of Adult Learning Scale.

The independent variable of written philosophy was quantified by a content analysis procedure. The remaining independent variables were measured by means of responses to a personal data form designed by the investigator.

Four statistical hypotheses were formulated and tested using the Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient. A mean, standard deviation, and range were computed for the responses to the Principles of Adult Learning Scale.

The significance level for rejecting the tested null hypotheses was set at 0.05. This investigation accepted all four null hypotheses. The results suggest that nurse educators' support of the collaborative teaching-learning mode is not related to their formal education. Nurse educators' support of the collaborative teaching-learning mode is not related to chronological age or to years of teaching experience. Findings suggested that nurse educators' support of the collaborative teaching-learning mode is not related to the school's philosophy of teaching-learning.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-09, Section: A, page: 2613.

Thesis (ED.D.)--NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, 1985.

School code: 0162.