PERCEPTION OF SECONDARY TECHNICAL NURSING STUDENTS REGARDING E-LEARNING
Heba Maher Abd Elsalam Elfeky;
Abstract
SUMMARY
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ursing schools are the basic and fundamental stone of the nursing education profession. E-learning is soon to become the dominant form of education in the world. A lot of effort is being devoted into furthering the work methods and communication among nursing students. Moreover, further development of nursing education in the future will depend on the advance of technologies and the Internet (Basavanthappa, 2003).
Aim of the study:
The present study aimed to assess the perception of the secondary technical nursing students regarding e-learning through:
- Assessing the socio-demographic characteristics of students.
- Comparing the students’ perception regarding e-learning versus traditional learning.
- Measuring students perceived difficulties in applying e-learning.
Research questions:
1- What are the perceptions of secondary technical nursing students regarding e-learning as a method of teaching?
2- Do socio-demographic characteristics of students affect their perceptions regarding e-learning?
I- Technical Design
The technical design for the study includes research design, setting of the study, subjects, and tools for data collection.
Research Design
A descriptive design was used to conduct this study.
Settings
The study was conducted at two secondary technical nursing schools affiliated to the Health Insurance Organization (HIO) in Qalyoubiah Branch. These are El-Nile and Benha nursing schools.
Subjects
A sample included all available students in first, second and third grades (150) at the previously mentioned settings, 75 students from El-Nile and 75 students from Benha nursing schools.
Tools of data collection:
Data were collected through using the following two tools:
I- A pre designed questionnaire (Appendix I):
It was designed by the researcher based on the review of related literature. It was written in simple Arabic language. It consists of two parts to assess the following data:
First part: It consists of socio-demographic characteristics of the studied students, such as; age, sex, academic year, fathers' educational level, mothers' educational level and residence.
Second part: It measures perceived difficulties in applying e-learning, adopted from Field (2005), and translated by the researcher. It consists of (12) questions such as; lack of training courses on how to deal with the computer and the internet, lack of skills to use e-learning such as; the ability to self-learning, self efficiency and frequent interruption of the internet during the search. The student select Yes or No to answer the questions.
II) Perception questionnaire (Appendix II):
Adopted from Kaseem and Hassan, (2010) and modified by the researcher, it was written in Arabic language to suit all student categories. It consists of (43) questions concerning students’ perception regarding using e-learning compared to traditional learning. It is classified into groups of questions concerning students' perception regarding methods of learning, advantages and disadvantages of e-learning, feeling toward e-learning and traditional learning, motivation regarding e-learning, communication, and learning achievement.
Scoring system for appendix II:
Responses of participants were checked against a three- points licker scale that range from agree to disagree. On each question the student rates her perception regarding e-learning from 0 to 2, with 0 representing disagree, 1 representing neutral and 2 representing agree. The total perception scale for each respondent is calculated taking into consideration all the perception items.
The total perception grades were divided and categorized as the following:
- Total score less than 55% is considered Disagree.
- Score from 55% to less than 65% is considered Neutral.
- Score from 65% and more is considered Agree.
II- Operational Design
The preparatory phase
Preparation of the study tools was based on reviewing of the past and current available literature using books, articles, periodicals, magazines and internet. This was necessary for the researcher to be acquainted with, and oriented toward all aspects of the research problems and to develop the study tools for data collection.
Pilot study
A pilot study was carried out before starting the data collection in October 2012 for two weeks, to test the applicability and the clarity of the study tools. It was applied on 10% of students from both schools, which were included in the main sample to evaluated the content validity of the study tools and estimate the time needed to fill in the tools. Simple modifications on the forms as rephrasing were done for the study tools according to the obtained results from the pilot study.
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ursing schools are the basic and fundamental stone of the nursing education profession. E-learning is soon to become the dominant form of education in the world. A lot of effort is being devoted into furthering the work methods and communication among nursing students. Moreover, further development of nursing education in the future will depend on the advance of technologies and the Internet (Basavanthappa, 2003).
Aim of the study:
The present study aimed to assess the perception of the secondary technical nursing students regarding e-learning through:
- Assessing the socio-demographic characteristics of students.
- Comparing the students’ perception regarding e-learning versus traditional learning.
- Measuring students perceived difficulties in applying e-learning.
Research questions:
1- What are the perceptions of secondary technical nursing students regarding e-learning as a method of teaching?
2- Do socio-demographic characteristics of students affect their perceptions regarding e-learning?
I- Technical Design
The technical design for the study includes research design, setting of the study, subjects, and tools for data collection.
Research Design
A descriptive design was used to conduct this study.
Settings
The study was conducted at two secondary technical nursing schools affiliated to the Health Insurance Organization (HIO) in Qalyoubiah Branch. These are El-Nile and Benha nursing schools.
Subjects
A sample included all available students in first, second and third grades (150) at the previously mentioned settings, 75 students from El-Nile and 75 students from Benha nursing schools.
Tools of data collection:
Data were collected through using the following two tools:
I- A pre designed questionnaire (Appendix I):
It was designed by the researcher based on the review of related literature. It was written in simple Arabic language. It consists of two parts to assess the following data:
First part: It consists of socio-demographic characteristics of the studied students, such as; age, sex, academic year, fathers' educational level, mothers' educational level and residence.
Second part: It measures perceived difficulties in applying e-learning, adopted from Field (2005), and translated by the researcher. It consists of (12) questions such as; lack of training courses on how to deal with the computer and the internet, lack of skills to use e-learning such as; the ability to self-learning, self efficiency and frequent interruption of the internet during the search. The student select Yes or No to answer the questions.
II) Perception questionnaire (Appendix II):
Adopted from Kaseem and Hassan, (2010) and modified by the researcher, it was written in Arabic language to suit all student categories. It consists of (43) questions concerning students’ perception regarding using e-learning compared to traditional learning. It is classified into groups of questions concerning students' perception regarding methods of learning, advantages and disadvantages of e-learning, feeling toward e-learning and traditional learning, motivation regarding e-learning, communication, and learning achievement.
Scoring system for appendix II:
Responses of participants were checked against a three- points licker scale that range from agree to disagree. On each question the student rates her perception regarding e-learning from 0 to 2, with 0 representing disagree, 1 representing neutral and 2 representing agree. The total perception scale for each respondent is calculated taking into consideration all the perception items.
The total perception grades were divided and categorized as the following:
- Total score less than 55% is considered Disagree.
- Score from 55% to less than 65% is considered Neutral.
- Score from 65% and more is considered Agree.
II- Operational Design
The preparatory phase
Preparation of the study tools was based on reviewing of the past and current available literature using books, articles, periodicals, magazines and internet. This was necessary for the researcher to be acquainted with, and oriented toward all aspects of the research problems and to develop the study tools for data collection.
Pilot study
A pilot study was carried out before starting the data collection in October 2012 for two weeks, to test the applicability and the clarity of the study tools. It was applied on 10% of students from both schools, which were included in the main sample to evaluated the content validity of the study tools and estimate the time needed to fill in the tools. Simple modifications on the forms as rephrasing were done for the study tools according to the obtained results from the pilot study.
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| Title | PERCEPTION OF SECONDARY TECHNICAL NURSING STUDENTS REGARDING E-LEARNING | Other Titles | أدراك طالبــات المــدارس الثانويــه الفنيــه للتمريض تجاه التعليم الألكترونى | Authors | Heba Maher Abd Elsalam Elfeky | Issue Date | 2014 |
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