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
Abstract Background The 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. Me...
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| description | Abstract Background The 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. Methods This 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. Conclusions In the context of COVID-19, nursing students conducted using distance education had poor course performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9daf8ff308c644c798c33229486ede332023-01-15T12:07:54ZengBMCBMC Nursing1472-69552023-01-012211910.1186/s12912-022-01136-1The impact of distance education on nursing students course performance in a sino-foreign cooperative program during the onset of COVID-19: a quasi-experimental studyYu Zhang0Ning Zhang1Hongyuan Liu2Yinshi Kan3Yan Zou4School of Nursing, Yangzhou UniversitySchool of Nursing, Yangzhou UniversitySchool of Nursing, Yangzhou UniversitySchool of Nursing, Yangzhou UniversitySchool of Nursing, Yangzhou UniversityAbstract Background The 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. Methods This 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. Conclusions In the context of COVID-19, nursing students conducted using distance education had poor course performance.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01136-1Distance educationCOVID-19Fundamentals of nursingAcademic self-efficacyAcademic engagement |
| spellingShingle | Yu Zhang Ning Zhang Hongyuan Liu Yinshi Kan Yan Zou 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 Distance education COVID-19 Fundamentals of nursing Academic self-efficacy Academic engagement |
| title | 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 |
| title_full | 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 |
| title_fullStr | 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 |
| title_full_unstemmed | 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 |
| title_short | 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 |
| title_sort | 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 |
| topic | Distance education COVID-19 Fundamentals of nursing Academic self-efficacy Academic engagement |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01136-1 |
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