Nursing Students’ Engagement in the Learning Environment
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 6
Abstract
Student engagement is extremely important in order to achieve the learning outcomes and the supportive learning environment is vital to the success of the teaching learning process. The aim of the work is to explore the nursing students' engagement in learning environment of medical surgical curricula .Materials and Method: the study conducted at, Medical Surgical Nursing Department, the Faculty of Nursing Alexandria University in Egypt . One tool used for the data collection ; students' engagement in learning environment questionnaire includes three domains and seventeen sub-domains with thirty five items. Results: half of subjects agreed that medical surgical courses enhance their critical thinking , problem solving and self managed learning 54.2% , 50%, 47.8% respectively the mean and standard deviation of participation domain is 51.8 (8.9) and higher than meaningful domain 45.7 (7.8), focused attention 28.1 (5.9) There was no statistical significant difference between the nursing students’ gender, GPA, area of residence and their engagement but there was a statistical significant difference between the nursing students’ qualifications , semester and their engagement. Conclusion and Recommendations: the subjects engaged positively in relation to critical thinking , self managed learning strategies and also socially engaged in relation communication , interpersonal skills and relation with teachers and others because the educational environment provide a variety of learning opportunities that enhance their engagement in the learning environment. A longitudinal study can be conducted to measure the academic engagement.
Authors and Affiliations
Amal Samir abd El-Maqsood, Eman El-Sayed Taha
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