The impact of distance education on nursing students course performance in a sino-foreign cooperative program during the onset of COVID-19: a quasi-experimental study

BMC Nursing

Research

Ning Zhang¹  Yan Zou¹  Hongyuan Liu¹  Yinshi Kan¹  Yu Zhang¹ 

[1] School of Nursing, Yangzhou University, Jiang Yang Road 136, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China;

关键词: Distance education;    COVID-19;    Fundamentals of nursing;    Academic self-efficacy;    Academic engagement;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12912-022-01136-1

 received in 2022-05-11, accepted in 2022-12-02,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe outbreak of COVID-19 changed many studies’ teaching mode in higher education profoundly, including nursing. This study evaluated the impact of distance education on the course performance of nursing students in a nursing fundamentals course during the epidemic of COVID-19.MethodsThis is a comparative prospective and retrospective quasi-experimental study. Nursing students in a Sino-foreign cooperative program were allocated to either an intervention group (distance education, n = 48) or control group (face-to-face teaching, n = 36). A self-efficacy questionnaire, an academic engagement scale and grades of the final written examination were used to evaluate the students’ self-efficacy, academic engagement and academic performance, respectively. The data in this study were analyzed by two independent sample t-tests and the Chi-square test.Students experiencing distance teaching had worse academic performance (p = 0.001) and lower levels of learning behavior self-efficacy (p<0.05). The total score of academic engagement (p = 0.04) for students experiencing distance teaching were significantly lower than the scores of those students in the control group.ConclusionsIn the context of COVID-19, nursing students conducted using distance education had poor course performance.

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