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PREDICTORS OF SUCCESS IN COURSES FOR NURSES REQUIRING A DEGREE OF SELF-DIRECTION
Title
PREDICTORS OF SUCCESS IN COURSES FOR NURSES REQUIRING A DEGREE OF SELF-DIRECTION.
Creator
MOORE, RUTH J., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
This study sought to identify characteristics and experiences that were indicators of success in courses that required a degree of self-direction in learning. Data were collected from 121 nurses enrolled in 17 home study courses. The course content and evaluation tools were designed to be of similar difficulty for each of the courses offered. The course grade furnished the criterion variable. Predictor variables included information obtained from the Biographical Data Questionnaire and the...
Show moreThis study sought to identify characteristics and experiences that were indicators of success in courses that required a degree of self-direction in learning. Data were collected from 121 nurses enrolled in 17 home study courses. The course content and evaluation tools were designed to be of similar difficulty for each of the courses offered. The course grade furnished the criterion variable. Predictor variables included information obtained from the Biographical Data Questionnaire and the Self-Directed Learning Readiness Instrument. The predictor variables were grouped into four main categories: (a) personal, educational, and employment characteristics; (b) motivation for enrolling in and completing the course; (c) orientation toward, and experience with self-directed learning; and (d) self-directed learning readiness. The null hypotheses, tested at the 0.05 level, were: (1) that there is no relationship between final grade received in a home study course and the variables relating to personal, educational, and employment characteristics; and (2) that motivation for involvement in, orientation toward, and experience with self-directed learning, and learner readiness was not related to final grade earned. The following statistical treatments were conducted on the data: (a) reliability studies for the 17 home study courses; (b) correlations measured the relationship between the predictor variables and the criterion variable; and, (c) multiple regression computed the relationship between sets of predictor variables and test scores. Reliability studies found lower coefficients than had been reported. Since the relationships were not significant at the 0.05 level of significance, the null hypotheses were not rejected. Sample characteristics were congruent with those described by researchers for self-directed adult learners. Subjects viewed themselves as self-directed learners and highly motivated to complete the course. Results of the study may have been affected by the inclusion of technical and professional nurses in one sample group; a sample highly motivated for completion; low reliability for the posttests; and a sample who answered most items correctly, which could limit possible correlation between the criterion and predictor variables.
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Date Issued
1987
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11899
Subject Headings
Nurses--Education, Success
Format
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NURSE COACHING AND POWER AS KNOWING PARTICIPATION IN CHANGE IN THE PROCESS OF HEALTH PATTERNING
Title
NURSE COACHING AND POWER AS KNOWING PARTICIPATION IN CHANGE IN THE PROCESS OF HEALTH PATTERNING.
Creator
Conrad, Shirley J., Butcher, Howard, Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
The purpose was to study the results Professional Certified Nurse Coaches (PCNCs) potentially have in mutually patterning the human energy field toward a higher wave frequency pattern of power as measured by the power as knowing participation in change tool and reflected in the narrative pattern profiles obtained from in-depth interviews. Participants were nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Barrett’s (1986, 2020) power as knowing participation in change theory an explanatory...
Show moreThe purpose was to study the results Professional Certified Nurse Coaches (PCNCs) potentially have in mutually patterning the human energy field toward a higher wave frequency pattern of power as measured by the power as knowing participation in change tool and reflected in the narrative pattern profiles obtained from in-depth interviews. Participants were nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Barrett’s (1986, 2020) power as knowing participation in change theory an explanatory convergent parallel mixed method using a single group with repeated measures (pre/post) and qualitative directed content analysis was used. A method for apprehending pandimensional awareness of unity and a mutual rhythmic-frequency process of-analysis-synthesis and were developed for the synthesis of numeric and textual data within a unitary perspective. Findings included a statistically significant effect for the total and four interrelated dimensions with a large effect size, except for the dimension involvement, which had a medium effect size. The results were the same when controlling for years of experience indicating that regardless of years of experience, professional nurse coaching appears to be beneficial. Six essences were identified and articulated as a group, as individuals, and across time. Joint displays show the synthesis. These findings have implications for nursing research, caring sciences, nursing education, nursing practice, policy, and professional nurse coaching.
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Date Issued
2023
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014260
Subject Headings
Nursing, Nursing--Education, Nurses
Format
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