Exploring Nursing Students Engagement in Their Learning Environment

Abstract

Student engagement is seen more than to just involve student during organization time its meaning has become more vast than previously assumed. Now, it is viewed by diverse aspects not a one aspect consider enough to define engagement. Student's emotional, cognitive and behavioral participation in their learning environment is considered as true engagement. It is not also helpful to engage student in course material but also help students to get better outcome. Nursing student engagement is essential in this respect that they have to pay double role. They not only engage in class room but also in clinical setting. In this research Cross-sectional study was done. Student Engagement Questionnaire (SEQ) developed by David Kember and Doris Leuing was used. Sample size of n=135 undergraduate students were taken. Data analyzed by using software SPSS 21. Bench markers of student engagement were analyzed by Pearson correlation and association between students engagements were analyzed by regression analysis. Results shows higher mean score in domain of meaningful process. Component of student engagement critical thinking, creative thinking and computer skills were highest mean score. Student shows the highest perception of work load and stress. There were no significant relationship between student engagement and self-reported cumulative GPA.

Investigating Relationship of Perceived Learning Engagement, Motivation, and Academic Performance Among Nursing Students: A Multisite Study

“…On the contrary, Abdul Sattar, Kouar and Gillani (2018) 24 in a cross sectional study among 135 undergraduate students reported no significant relationship between student engagement and self-reported cumulative GPA. Abdul Sattar et al (2018) 24 study favored that student who hold low GPA try to engage more in their learning environment to get better results in future.…”

“…On the contrary, Abdul Sattar, Kouar and Gillani (2018) 24 in a cross sectional study among 135 undergraduate students reported no significant relationship between student engagement and self-reported cumulative GPA. Abdul Sattar et al (2018) 24 study favored that student who hold low GPA try to engage more in their learning environment to get better results in future. On same vein, Ghiyasvandian, Shahsavari, Kazemnejad, Goodarzi and Razavi (2019) 25 found that there was also a significant, but weak, relationship between the engagement to learning and academic achievement in the interactive classroom management.…”

Student Engagement Increases Caring Behaviour of Nursing Students

“…Student engagement is essential in both classroom and clinical practice settings for nursing students. A research study of Sattar et al, (2018) showed that three domains of student engagement (Hudsonm 2015) (Vollet, 2017) i.e. meaningful process (3.75), participation (3.35) and attention focus (3.25) had a high average score).…”

“…The three subdomains also had a positive correlation in which one subdomain increased the other subdomains. All domains of student engagement were critical to student nurses in classrooms as well as in clinical practice setting (Abdul, 2018). The engagement of students in the clinical environment is related to the diversity of patient status, conditions which enable students learning various cases, and mentor support and care improve the quality of being 'engaged' between student nurses and patients by creating decisions in collaboration(.…”

Creative Learning Environment and its Relation with Nursing Student's Engagement, Academic Performance and Self-Concept

“…It was affiliated to the higher education ministry High-level "if the percent ≥ 75%,equal (88-117), moderate level, "from 60% to less than 75% equal (71-87) and Low level "< 60 %" equal (39-70) 2 nd tool: Nursing Students' Engagement Questionnaire. It was developed by the researchers after reviewing related literature (Abdelhalim, et al, 2022& Abdul Sattar , et al, (2018 and aimed to assess the levels of nursing students' engagement in their learning environment. It consisted of (31 items) categorized as follows; academic engagement (10 items), cognitive engagement (12 items), behavioral engagement (9 items).…”