NURSE ANESTHESIOLOGY INSTRUCTOR AND GRADUATE PERCEPTIONS OF INSTRUCTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN SCHOOLS OF NURSE ANESTHESIOLOGY.
Contributors: University of New Orleans.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Education, Health.; Education, Adult and Continuing.; Education, Curriculum and Instruction.
Description: The purpose of the study was to investigate instructional effectiveness in the three types of nurse anesthesiology programs (Master's Degree, baccalaureate and certificate). Additionally instructional effectiveness in the three types of programs was related to graduate achievement.

Instructional effectiveness was assessed by utilizing the Characteristics Questionnaire (ICQ). The ICQ was administered to all instructors in the 89 schools of nurse anesthesiology and all nurse anesthesiology graduates who wrote the December, 1987 National Certification Examination (NCE).

The study utilized an ex post facto design. Two research questions and two related research questions were examined by the study. The first research question examined: Are there perceived differences in instructional effectiveness in the three types of nurse anesthesiology programs? The research hypothesis was tested using a 2 x 3 ANOVA. The second research question was: Are there significant differences in student achievement on the National Certification Examination in the three types of nurse anesthesiology programs? The research hypothesis was tested using a one-way ANOVA. Related Research question one examined: Do instructors' and graduates' perceptions of instructional effectiveness affect student achievement on the National Certification Examination? This related question was tested by multiple regression. The second research question examined: Do instructors' and graduates' perceptions on each of the seven subscales of instructional effectiveness on the ICQ different in direction to scores on the NEC? The sum scores on the ICQ and NEC were compared for relationships.

Results indicated that graduates from Master's Degree nurse anesthesiology programs scored higher on the NCE than did graduates from certificate and baccalaureate nurse anesthesiology programs. Also, instructional effectiveness was perceived by both instructor and graduate to be highest in the Master's Degree nurse anesthesiology programs. Results also suggest that two areas of instructional effectiveness on the ICQ (establishing goals and expectations, and evaluation) were predictors of higher NCE scores.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-02, Section: A, page: 0369.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS, 1988.

School code: 0108.