Worksheet on the Emergency Nursing Subject: Students- Perception and Academic Performance
Indah Dwi Pratiwi
University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Abstract
Background: Students- perception of learning method may be influenced by students- diversity, educational facility and tools, students- expectation, and other school-s conditions. Meanwhile, students- perception was not widely researched in terms of the use of the learning method, student-s worksheet, for example. Objectives: To identify students- perceptions of the use of learning media (students- worksheet), academic performance, and their correlation. Method: The design of this study was an observational, descriptive study with a cross-sectional approach. A total of 82 students completed a self-administered questionnaire which contains ten statements using a 5-Likert scale. The main predictor variables were the students- perception and academic performance. Descriptive statistics and Spearman Rho test were used for data analysis. Results: Of 82 respondents, the majority (85, 4%) had positive perceptions of student worksheets in the Emergency Nursing subject. More than half of them (59, 8%) had above-average academic performance, and there was also a significant relationship between students perceptions with academic achievement (p-value = 0.000). Conclusion: This present research has portrayed findings regarding how nursing students in an Indonesian nursing school perceive the learning method. The current study suggests that the lecturers should modify their learning method creatively to improve students- capabilities in active learning.
Keywords: Perception, students, academic performance, worksheet
Topic: Emergency