Nursing students' preferences of strategies surrounding cinenurducation in a first year child growth and development courses: A mixed methods study.
BACKGROUND
Use of film in the classroom (cinenurducation) promotes nursing students' motivation and understanding of concepts about child growth and development; however, consensus has not been reached regarding students' preferred strategies and what they view as effective.


OBJECTIVE
To identify nursing students' preferences for pedagogical strategies surrounding film use in a Child Growth and Development course.


METHODS
A mixed methods study encompassing a concurrent triangulation strategy was undertaken.


METHODS
Eighty-three students attending the first year nursing class in the fall semester 2012 at a private University in South Korea participated.


METHODS
Films or film clips were shown either before or after pedagogical strategies including lecture, presentation, personal essay, group report, or group discussion, followed by a questionnaire to assess student preferences and their opinions on the impact of strategies on motivation and learning. A focus group with 10 participants provided their opinions.


RESULTS
Although the preference for the time when films were watched showed no significant difference (t=.388, p=.699), participants preferred the following pedagogical methods: watching films with a group, saying this was more effective compared to watching films alone (t=5.488, p<.001); full movie over film clips (t=2.869, p=.005); and personal essay over group report (t=2.755, p=.007). Focus group participants also stated that it was more effective to watch the entire movie rather than film clips with the group, and preferred personal essays to group reports.


CONCLUSIONS
Use of nursing students' preferred learning strategies surrounding cinenurducation helped them gain conceptual knowledge in a Child Growth and Development course.
Department of Nursing, Institute of Health Science, Inje University, Busan, South Korea. Electronic address: ohjina@inje.ac.kr.
Jina
J
Oh
Rutgers University Correctional Health Care, Trenton, NJ, USA. Electronic address: lsteefel@gmail.com.
Lorraine
L
Steefel
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D006801:Humans; D056910:Republic of Korea; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
Child development; Cinenurducation; Nursing education; Pedagogical strategies