title: The impact of active learning on nursing students' clinical success.
abstract: Active, cooperative learning is a method to teach the critical thinking skills necessary for the transfer and use of classroom-acquired knowledge in the clinical setting. Yet many nursing educators continue to use teacher-centered educational approaches while identifying an array of barriers for the voiced preference for student-centered education. Using holistic, active cooperative learning strategies (faculty role modeling, student interactive and group learning, and group testing) within a didactic class, the authors found differences in the average clinical grade (87.03) when compared to the average clinical grade for students who had been taught using a lecture approach (84.19).
authors.affiliation: New Mexico State University, USA.
authors.forename: Mary M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Hoke
authors.forename: Leslie K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Robbins
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D009864:Ontario; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology