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Assessment tool for nursing student computer competencies.

Computer skills have been established as important for nursing students and for graduate nurses. No current research was found on the best method to evaluate the skills of incoming nursing students. The purpose of this descriptive, correlational study was to compare student ratings of their computer...

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Published in:Nursing Education Perspectives (National League for Nursing) Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 148 - 153
Main Authors: Elder BL, Koehn ML
Format: questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: National League for Nursing May2009
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          Competency Assessment
          Computer Literacy Evaluation
          Computerized Educational Testing
          Students, Nursing, Baccalaureate
          Adult
          Content Validity
          Convenience Sample
          Correlational Studies
          Data Analysis Software
          Descriptive Research
          Descriptive Statistics
          Female
          Male
          Midwestern United States
          Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
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          Reliability
          Summated Rating Scaling
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          Adult: 19-44 years
          Female
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      ab: Computer skills have been established as important for nursing students and for graduate nurses. No current research was found on the best method to evaluate the skills of incoming nursing students. The purpose of this descriptive, correlational study was to compare student ratings of their computer competency to their performance of those skills on a computer-graded assessment. A convenience sample of 87 nursing students was used. There was a low, but significant correlation between the scores on the survey and the assessment. The results suggest that students rate themselves higher on their skills than their actual performance of computer skills. Implications for educators are presented, and the value of using a computer-graded assessment is discussed.
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