Nursing Students’ Opinions on Development of Research Competency and the 21st Century Skills Using Project-based Instruction
Keywords:
improvement, research competency, the 21st-century skills, project-based instructionAbstract
This research aimed to study nursing students’ opinions on developing research competency and 21st-century skills using project-based instruction. The sample consisted of 58 third-year nursing students who enrolled in academic year 2016 and the data were collected in May 2017. The data collection was divided into two phases: 1) quantitative data were collected from 58 third-year nursing students using questionnaires; 2) qualitative data were collected from 14 nursing students who met the specific criterion. The researcher conducted in-depth interviews and analyzed the data using descriptive statistics and content analyses.
The findings revealed that students had little research knowledge at the beginning of the project and had much knowledge after the completion of the project (55.17 and 56.90 percentages, respectively). Nursing students’ opinions on their development were: 1) the development of research competency, including research knowledge competency, research skill competency, and research attitude competency, and 2) the development of twenty-first century skills, including reading, writing, arithmetic, problem-solving, collaborative, teamwork, communication, and computer information technology skills.
These findings suggest that instructors should consider using project-based instruction to improve research competency and the 21st-century skills of nursing students.
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