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An innovative strategy in evaluation: using a student engagement framework to evaluate a role-based simulation.

Morgan Smith1, Jane Warland, Colleen Smith

  • 1University of South Australia, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Adelaide, South Australia.

The Journal of Nursing Education
|January 31, 2012
PubMed
Summary

Evaluating online role-play in nursing and midwifery programs requires focusing on student engagement. A new framework showed promise but needs refinement to ensure deep learning from specific course activities.

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Area of Science:

  • Nursing Education
  • Medical Simulation
  • Clinical Reasoning

Background:

  • Online role-play offers authentic learning experiences and develops clinical reasoning skills.
  • Current evaluations of simulation learning primarily assess content and outcomes, not the learning process via student engagement.
  • Existing student engagement metrics often target program or institutional levels, not specific learning activities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate an online role-play activity using a student engagement framework within Bachelor of Nursing and Bachelor of Midwifery programs.
  • To assess the suitability of a student engagement framework for analyzing learning activities at the course level.
  • To identify areas for improvement in evaluating student engagement in online simulations.

Main Methods:

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  • Application of a student engagement framework to an online role-play simulation.
  • Data collection focused on student engagement during a specific learning activity.
  • Analysis of the framework's effectiveness in evaluating course-level initiatives.

Main Results:

  • The student engagement framework provided useful insights for evaluating the online role-play.
  • The framework's application highlighted the importance of process-oriented evaluation in simulations.
  • Findings suggest existing engagement measures may not be optimized for specific learning activities.

Conclusions:

  • While the student engagement framework shows potential, further refinement of its questions is necessary.
  • Ensuring deep learning requires a more precise understanding of engagement within specific course activities.
  • Future research should focus on developing and validating engagement metrics for targeted educational interventions.