title: Patient simulator sessions and critical thinking.
abstract: The project purpose was to determine whether measures of critical thinking show differences between three groups (simulator, non-simulator, control) of baccalaureate nursing students. The second purpose was to determine the moderating effect of students' preferred learning style. All groups experienced a moderate to large effect size in critical thinking scores. The corrected model for the total scale gain score was statistically significant but not significant for learning style or group.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Learning Center and Clinical Simulation Laboratory, Brigham Young University, College of Nursing, 500D SWKT, Provo, UT 84602-5450, USA. patricia_ravert@byu.edu
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ravert
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008348:Manikins; D013850:Thinking; D014481:United States