THE EFFECTS OF LEARNING MODES ON THE LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE AND THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE OF REENTRY NURSES (TEACHING METHODS, INTERACTIVE VIDEO).
Contributors: University of Maryland, College Park.
Published: 1991
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Adult and Continuing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a difference in the level of confidence and the level of knowledge of reentry nurses who receive interactive video as a mode of learning a specific skill and those reentry nurses who receive traditional lecture and demonstration as a mode of learning a specific skill. Subjects for this study consisted of fifty-four nurses participating in the refresher nursing courses at four selected community colleges in central Maryland. Two of the refresher courses were the control group and the other two refresher courses were the experimental group.

The study used a pretest-posttest design. Two researcher developed instruments were used to collect the data. One instrument was a seventeen item Confidence Inventory with a five point semantic differentiation scale. The other instrument was a seventeen item paper and pencil multiple choice test. The Confidence Inventory and the Multiple Choice Test were administered immediately prior to the intervention. Lecture and demonstration was used to teach the assigned material to the control group. The experimental group was taught the assigned material using the interactive video. The two instruments were administered to each group one week following the intervention.

Data were analyzed by using the analysis of covariance test statistic. The findings from the investigation were that (1) there was no statistically significant difference in confidence levels between the control group and the experimental group at the.05 level; and (2) there was an increase in knowledge in favor of those nurses who received the interactive video and that the change was statistically significant at the.05 level.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-04, Section: B, page: 1791.

Thesis (ED.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK, 1991.

School code: 0117.