title: The relationship of learning motivation, achievement and satisfaction for nurses learning simple excel VBA information systems programming.
abstract: This study aims to understand the relationship between participating nurses' motivation, achievement and satisfaction before and after they learned to program in Excel Visual Basic for Applications (Excel VBA). We held a workshop to train nurses in developing simple Excel VBA information systems to support their clinical or administrative practices. Before and after the workshop, the participants were evaluated on their knowledge of Excel VBA, and a questionnaire was given to survey their learning motivation and satisfaction. Statistics softwares Winsteps and SPSS were used for data analysis. Results show that the participants are more knowledgeable about VBA as well as more motivated in learning VBA after the workshop. Participants were highly satisfied with the overall arrangement of the workshop and instructors, but didn't have enough confidence in promoting the application of Excel VBA themselves. In addition, we were unable to predict the participants' achievement by their demographic characteristics or pre-test motivation level.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan (ROC).
authors.forename: Ying Li
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan (ROC).
authors.forename: Tsai Feng
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Chien
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC).
authors.forename: Ming Chuan
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC).
authors.forename: Polun
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D009042:Motivation; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000193:education*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D013624:Taiwan