Academic Nurse Educators’ Perceptions of Classroom Assessment Practices as Means for Quality Nursing Education

Authors

  • Basil C.E Oguguo Department of Science Education, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria Author
  • Catherine. U. Ene Department of Science Education, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria Author
  • Priscilla O. Dave-Ugwu Department of Science Education, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria Author
  • Rosaline. I. Ezechukwu Department of educational psychology, Federal college of education, omoku, rivers state, Nigeria Author
  • Cliff I. Okebanama Department of Science Education, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria Author
  • Geoffrey Ukala Department of Science Education, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria Author
  • Oluchi J. Agugoesi Department of Science Education, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria Author
  • Felicia C. Ugwu Department of Science Education, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61841/qxm2hc63

Keywords:

academic nurseeducators’ perceptions, classroom assessment practices, quality nursing education

Abstract

 Assessment is considered a challenging task; to this effect, in order to have an efficient
classroom assessment, an adequate understanding and mastery of assessment practices is
needed by nurse educators. Nurse Educators’ are very essential in implementing the right
assessment approaches since they possess the necessary assessment practices such as their
attitudes, values, and beliefs etc. The study sought to gain an understanding of the extent to
which Nurse Educators’ use different classroom assessment tools to understand and support
both the teaching and learning processes in undergraduate studies. Descriptive survey research
design was employed and 397 Nurse Educators participated in the study. The instrument used
for data collection was ‘Bloom’s Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor
BehavioursQuestionnaire’ (BCAPBQ) with 43-items. The internal consistency of the instrument
was determined using Cronbach’s Alpha and the reliability index of 0.81 was obtained. The
study discovered thatnurse educators to higher extent perceived the levels of behavioural
objectives as means for providing quality nursing education. The findings also showed the
extentnurse educators’ assessment practices measure each levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy
behaviours.The findings support previous findings of authors who found that teachers’
perceptions of classroom assessment affected their classroom assessment practices.The findings
of this study will lead to a broader scale with the basic data it supplies. It will expose the nurse  educators to different strategies used in monitoring undergraduate students’ nurses learning.
The research supplies good idea of the instruments for measuring those staked learning
outcomes in nursing education. 

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25.09.2024

How to Cite

C.E Oguguo, B., U. Ene, C., O. Dave-Ugwu, P., I. Ezechukwu, R., I. Okebanama, C., Ukala, G., J. Agugoesi, O., & C. Ugwu, F. (2024). Academic Nurse Educators’ Perceptions of Classroom Assessment Practices as Means for Quality Nursing Education. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 25(2), 590-608. https://doi.org/10.61841/qxm2hc63