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CBI: facilitating students' medication dosage calculation and self-efficacy. (The scholarship of teaching and learning).

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| March 22, 2002 | LaVarre, Harriette A.; Kitsantas, Anastasia | COPYRIGHT 2002 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

The present study examined the effects of two modes of instruction (computer-based and print-based) and the presence or absence of graphics on students' drug dosage calculation performance and self-efficacy beliefs with 56 undergraduate nursing students. It was hypothesized that students receiving computer-based and graphics-enhanced instruction would score higher on the post-test and report higher self-efficacy beliefs to solve drug dosage problems than students receiving the print-based mode of instruction. As expected, the groups receiving computer-based instruction scored significantly higher on the drug dosage problems and reported greater ...

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