A survey study of teaching competencies of clinical nursing teachers in technical colleges

• Main Authors: Hsiao-Hui Cheng, 鄭曉蕙
• Other Authors: Mei Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08262430645622257856

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 護理學研究所 === 100 === The main purpose of this study is to investigate the teaching competence of clinical nursing teachers in technical colleges in Taiwan, including what clinical nursing teachers think of the importance of teaching competence and evaluate their teaching competence. Moreover, the paper analyzes the relationship between clinical nursing teachers’ individual characteristics and their teaching competence. A convenience-type sampling was used to select 181 clinical nursing teachers from public and private technical colleges in Taiwan. After reviewing the existing literature and considering the purpose of this study, the author translated and developed the questionnaire of “self-evaluation of teaching competence by clinical nursing teachers” for data collection. By means of the software of SPSS18.0 version, the data collected was analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson product-moment correlation. 1. The importance of teaching competence, which clinical nursing teachers evaluate, ranked from high to low as “nursing competence,” “interpersonal relationship,” “teaching skills” and “personality factors” (both scored the same), and then “evaluation skills.” 2. Among the personal characteristics of clinical nursing teachers, only the age was correlated substantially with the self-evaluation of teaching competence. The three groups of clinical nursing teacher (i.e., aged 31-35, 36-40 and 41-45) evaluated the importance of “nursing competence” higher than the group aged 26-30 did. The group aged 36-40 evaluated the importance of “evaluation skills” and “personality factors” higher than the group aged 26-30 did. 3. The scores of teaching competence that clinical nursing teachers self-evaluated were rated “good”. The importance of each sub-scale from high to low was listed as “nursing competence” and “interpersonal relationship” (both scored the same), “personality factors,” and then “teaching skills” and “evaluation skills” (both scored the same). 4. The importance of teaching competence for clinical nursing teachers in all aspects was correlated substantially with the self-evaluation of teaching competence. The fact that the subjects of study evaluated relatively low on the importance of “teaching skills” and “evaluation skills” and their own competence, show that the perception and competence of clinical nursing teachers on these two aspects need to be improved considerably. It is worth for the teaching units to pay great attention and offer adequate in-job-training for help.