ADULT RN STUDENTS' RANKING OF THE IMPORTANCE OF CONDITIONS RELATED TO TAKING AN OFF-CAMPUS COURSE OFFERING (REGISTERED NURSING STUDENTS).
Contributors: Temple University.
Published: 1990
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Education, Adult and Continuing.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: A self-administered questionnaire was given to 402 adult RN students enrolled in a baccaluareate program who had the choice of taking a course at an off campus location. The instrument was used to identify the relative importance of twenty selected conditions of an off campus offering in the decision of whether to take advantage of such an opportunity. Each of the twenty conditions was considered to be either academic, administrative or environmental in nature. MANOVA and discriminant analysis was conducted to determine if there was a difference in response between the populations who had taken a course at the off campus location and those who had not. All studied populations indicated that the particular course offered at the off campus location was the single most important condition in their decision of whether or not to attend. Various aspects of the course format such as time and length of class were also considered important by all groups. The off campus location site and its perceived safety and accessibility also had a significant influence in the decision of whether or not to attend. Availability of food service and whether friends attended the off campus location were ranked as the least important by all populations.

The students who had attended an off campus location ranked the academic and environmental conditions as generally less important than did the students who had not attended on off campus location. Further study would be required to determine if the difference in responses was due to the experience of the off campus enrollment itself.

The data in the study indicates that of the top five conditions found to be most important to all studied populations, each of the three factors was represented. This information supports the research that adult participation in organized learning is a function of at least several types of factors and their unique effect on the individual.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-08, Section: A, page: 2606.

Thesis (ED.D.)--TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, 1990.

School code: 0225.