The Effects of Lessons using Action Learning on Nursing Students

Abstract

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of action learning on critical thinking disposition, communicative competence, and problem‐solving ability in nursing students. METHODS: The design for this was a nonequivalent control group pretest‐posttest design was used for identification of the effects of lessons using action learning. The consenting participants were 184 fourth‐year nursing students in D‐city (Experimental group=95, Control group=89). Data was collected and the program was conducted from May 2 to July 19, 2015. Data was analyzed with an chi2‐test, a t‐test, and a paired t‐test and utilized the SPSS win 21.0 program. RESULTS: There were significant differences in critical thinking ability (t=5.00, p