英文摘要 |
This study explored the effects of web-based peer assessment on promoting nursing students’ communication skills. A quasi-experimental research design was conducted to investigate the effects. The participants were two classes of fourth-year students who were enrolled in a “psychiatric nursing” course in a nursing college. One class with 49 students served as the experimental group, and used web-based peer assessment to learn nursing communication skills. The other class with 52 students served as the control group, and used traditionally paper-and-pencil method. We used pretest-posttest control group design and collected two classes of students’ group discussion videos rated by the experts to compare their performance of nursing communication skills. A questionnaire was conducted to understand the differences of their self-regulated process while learning communication. The results demonstrated that the performance of communication skills of experimental group in posttest was higher than that of control group. However, the peer assessment scores of experimental group and control group were not significantly correlated with the experts’ scores in pretest and posttest, indicating the online peer assessment did not effectively improve students’ assessment skills of communication. Future systems should be considered to promote students’ awareness of communication rubric. Furthermore, while learning communication, the students in the experimental group used different strategies more often to improve their learning than the control group. In the experimental group, the proportion of students who felt depressed and wanted to give up their learning was lower than the control group. It is suggested that the future nursing communication training could use network peer-evaluation approach to reduce the burden on teachers, and to promote learning. |