THE EFFECTS OF TWO TEACHING METHODOLOGIES ON BACCALAUREATE NURSING STUDENTS' ACQUISITION AND SKILL PERFORMANCE (COMPUTER SIMULATION, CRANIEL NERVE ASSESSMENT, PSYCHOMOTOR SKILL LEARNING, PHYSICAL, PERFORMING).
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effeciveness of a computer simulation to teach the basic physical assessment skill of cranial nerve assessment. The subjects were forty-three generic baccalaureate nursing students enrolled in a public or private baccalaureate nursing program during the Fall Semester, 1984.

To address the problem under study, the investigator attempted to answer the following questions: (1) Was the computer simulation as effective as the lecture/demonstration for teaching baccalaureate nursing students the cognitive and psychomotor skills associated with cranial nerve assessment? (2) Does the computer simulation group demonstrate skill performance comparable to the lecture/demonstration group?.

A pretest-posttest experimental design was used in this study. The experimental group (N = 24) received a twenty-minute pretest followed by a thirty-minute computer simulation, while the second group (N = 19) received the twenty-minute pretest and a thirty-minute lecture/demonstration on cranial nerve assessment. One week later both groups performed a ten-minute cranial nerve assessment which was evaluated with a cranial nerve assessment checklist. Following the cranial nerve assessment a twenty-minute posttest was given to all subjects. The Apple II Plus and the Apple IIe were the microcomputers used in this study.

Data were analyzed with an analysis of variance and analysis of covariance. The findings of this study were the following: (1) computer simulation was as effective as lecture/demonstration in teaching cranial nerve assessment to baccalaureate nursing students during the cognitive phase of psychomotor skill learning; (2) the computer simulation group performed the cranial nerve assessment as well as the lecture/demonstration group.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-10, Section: B, page: 3389.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 1985.

School code: 0227.