Course Design of Nursing Clinical Thinking Training Based on STEM Education Concept

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fen Yang ◽  
Xinhong Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Clinical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Clinical ◽  
Education Concept

Abstract Background: The STEM education philosophy aims to incorporate the core content of the STEM field into a real and attractive problem scenario, using problem-driven and student-centered teaching methods to support students' multidisciplinary content integration learning and help students master the practice skills which coincide with the training of nursing students' clinical thinking ability. The STEM education concept not only enables nursing students to translate their previous knowledge and skills into the real nursing situation, but also develops students' critical thinking skills, thereby improving the ability to solve clinical nursing problems. Methods: Based on the STEM education concept, this paper constructs the design of nursing clinical thinking training course for nursing undergraduate nursing, including six teaching parts: writing teaching case, group discussion, teacher commentary, student mutual evaluation, heuristic guidance and case scenario simulation. Results: Clinical thinking training teaching model based on STEM education concept may be able to cultivate critical thinking ability of nursing undergraduate students. Conclusions: To construct nursing clinical thinking training teaching model based on STEM education concept, in order to cultivate critical thinking ability and realize knowledge transfer through STEM curriculum education.

CONCEPT MAPPING:Does It Improve Critical Thinking Ability in Practical Nursing Students?

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
RHONDA E. MANEVAL ◽  
MONICA J. FILBURN ◽  
SUSAN O. DERINGER ◽  
GLEN D. LUM
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Practical Nursing ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Practical Nursing Students

scholarly journals Effects of blended versus offline case-centered learning on academic performance and critical thinking ability among undergraduate nursing students：a cluster randomized controlled trial

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenzhen Yu ◽  
Ling Shen ◽  
Jiayuan Zhuang ◽  
Yimin Chen ◽  
Meijing Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Cluster Randomized

Abstract Background: Educational reform, especially methods of teaching, has been a focus among nursing educators. This study explored the impact of blended versus offline case-centered learning on academic performance of Medical Nursing and critical thinking ability among undergraduate nursing students.Methods: A cluster randomized controlled study design was used, with assessments immediately before and one school year after the intervention. All the second-year undergraduate nursing students in two class were enrolled in this study by cluster sampling. The two classes of Medical Nursing were randomly allocated to either the experimental class, which undertook blended case-centered learning, or the control class, which undertook offline case-centered learning. The primary outcomes were academic performance consisting of final exam and process assessment, as well as the critical thinking ability assessed with the Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory-Chinese Version (CTDI-CV). The Mann-Whitney U test and the unpaired t test was subsequently used. ANCOVA analyses were also performed to examine the two teaching methods’ effect on academic performance and critical thinking.Results: Students in the experimental class showed a significantly higher improvement in academic performance of Medical Nursing than the control class. In addition, compared with the control class, the pre-post difference in competency in critical thinking self-confidence in the experimental class was significantly greater (p=0.037). In the experimental class, there was significant improvement compared with baseline in dimension of critical thinking self-confidence (p=0.022). In the control class, there was significant improvement compared with baseline in the total score (p=0.029) and two of the seven dimensions: truth-seeking (p=0.016) and systematicity (p=0.005).Conclusions: Use of the blended case-centered learning showed the promising results in promoting students’ academic performance. Both the blended and offline case-centered learning in this study were a suitable educational approach to improve the critical thinking ability of undergraduate nursing students. In the future, blended and offline case-centered learning could be implemented in other nursing subjects. Moreover, further efforts to improve teaching are warranted.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study on the Influence of PBL Teaching Model on College Students’ Critical Thinking Ability

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Zhou
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
English Education ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Jiangxi Province ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Teaching Mode ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Thinking Ability

The critical thinking ability is an indispensable ability of contemporary college students, and the PBL teaching mode abandons the shortcomings of traditional teaching methods, which is more suitable for the development trend of university curriculum teaching reform in China. In order to understand the influence of PBL teaching mode on college students’ critical thinking ability, the research is carried out into English critical thinking dispositions and skills of the second grade English education majors in Jiangxi Province, via questionnaire, interview, English test and PBL teaching experiment. And the results indicate that the PBL teaching model can improve the three English critical thinking temperament level of analysis, open and fair, and it can significantly improve the two English critical thinking skills of analysis and interpretation, but did not improve the English scores of the students significantly. The purpose of this study is to enrich the research on the influence of PBL teaching model and English critical thinking ability, and so as to provide some reference for improving the quality of English teaching in colleges and universities.

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