Evaluation of Student Perceived Self-Efficacy With the Implementation of a Problem-Based Learning Module

To facilitate the graduation of competent registered nurses, healthcare educators must create learning environments that foster content expertise, problem solving, collaboration, and refined learning skills. Although countless teaching strategies are in existence today, problem-based learning (PBL) has revealed noteworthy potential in healthcare education. In PBL, complex, reality-based problems are used as motivation for students to identify salient concepts, gather data, and ultimately work through posed problems. Considerable evidence supports the use of PBL as a method to promote learning, though examining knowledge alone cannot always assess actual behavioral performance. To ascertain the likelihood learned concepts would be utilized in practice, we can evaluate perceived self- efficacy. According to Bandura, self-efficacy is the degree to which an individual believes that a behavior can be successfully performed to produce a desired outcome. Information learned provides a foundation for performance to transpire, but in the absence of self-efficacy performance may not even be attempted. This study examined the relationship between PBL and perceived self-efficacy. Using a quasi-experimental, non-equivalent control group design, self-efficacy was measured using Schwarzer and Jerusalem\u27s General Self-Efficacy Scale. The study found that the perceived self-efficacy of undergraduate nursing students who participated in a PBL skills laboratory module were significantly higher than their counterparts who studied the same topic in a class not employing PBL

Beer, Barbarism, and the Church from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

At the height of the Roman Empire, Roman citizens undoubtedly favored wine. As the Empire expanded into surrounding areas, increased exposure to beer even further solidified Romans’ preference for wine, not just as a drink, but as a symbol of Romanitas. Beer, brewed mostly in the provincial regions not climatically suited for grapes and wine, quickly became associated with barbarians and therefore stood in opposition to Roman values. As Roman authority waned in the West through the fifth and sixth centuries, Christianity remained powerful, and Christian sources betray an acceptance of beer, tacitly and later more explicitly. This ecclesiastical presence in the thoroughly Romanized provinces of the West paralleled the disappearance of the “barbarian” stigma from beer. Beer made its way into the culture of western Christendom, and it became an acceptable drink. This eventual acknowledgement of the merits of beer is an important and all-too-often overlooked indicator of the transition from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages

Trinity College Trustees Minutes, Vol 8 (1961-1967)

October 14, 1961-January 14, 1967https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/trustees_mins/1016/thumbnail.jp

A Region Responds: The Neighbors in Need Fund Report to the Community

Reviews the impact of a fund created to meet the needs of District of Columbia, Maryland, and Northern Virginia residents during the recession. Includes summary of grants by type of service and region, as well as profiles and lists of grantees and donors

Baccalaureate and Commencement 1980

The program of the 1980 Baccalaureate Service and Annual Commencement of Taylor University, May 17, 1980.https://pillars.taylor.edu/commencement/1141/thumbnail.jp

The Chironian Vol. 16 No. 1

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