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Using structured academic controversy with nursing students.

Margaret J Bull1

  • 1Marquette University, College of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-1881, USA. margaret.bull@marquette.edu

Nurse Educator
|September 11, 2007
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Structured academic controversy is a novel strategy for nurse educators to foster critical thinking skills in students. This approach was used in a graduate gerontological nursing course, with a grading rubric provided.

Area of Science:

  • Nursing Education
  • Pedagogy
  • Higher Education

Background:

  • Nurse educators employ diverse strategies to cultivate critical thinking in students.
  • Structured academic controversy (SAC) is an underutilized pedagogical tool in nursing education.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce structured academic controversy as a novel strategy for nurse educators.
  • To describe the implementation of SAC in a graduate gerontological nursing course.
  • To present a rubric for grading SAC assignments.

Main Methods:

  • Structured Academic Controversy (SAC) was implemented in a graduate-level gerontological nursing course.
  • A rubric was developed to assess student performance in the SAC activity.

Main Results:

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  • The study details the application of SAC within a specific nursing education context.
  • A grading rubric was created to evaluate the effectiveness of the SAC assignment.

Conclusions:

  • Structured Academic Controversy offers a unique and effective method for enhancing critical thinking in nursing students.
  • The developed rubric provides a framework for assessing SAC assignments in gerontological nursing education.