Juliani Carmen Maria Casquel Monti, Corrente José Eduardo, Dell'Acqua Magda Cristina Queiroz
Department of Nursing, Botucatu School of Medicine, São Paulo State University, UNESP, Brazil.
Comput Inform Nurs. 2011 Apr;29(4):212-20. doi: 10.1097/NCN.0b013e3181f9dcb5.
Computerized technological resources have become essential in education, particularly for teaching topics that require the performance of specific tasks. These resources can effectively help the execution of such tasks and the teaching-learning process itself. After the development of a Web site on the topic of nursing staff scheduling, this study aimed at comparing the development of students involved in the teaching-learning process of the previously mentioned topic, with and without the use of computer technology. Two random groups of undergraduate nursing students from a public university in São Paulo state, Brazil, were organized: a case group (used the Web site) and a control group (did not use the Web site). Data were collected from 2003 to 2005 after approval by the Research Ethics Committee. Results showed no significant difference in motivation or knowledge acquisition. A similar performance for the two groups was also verified. Other aspects observed were difficulty in doing the nursing staff scheduling exercise and the students' acknowledgment of the topic's importance for their training and professional lives; easy access was considered to be a positive aspect for maintaining the Web site.
计算机技术资源在教育中已变得至关重要，尤其是对于教授需要执行特定任务的主题。这些资源可以有效地帮助执行此类任务以及教学过程本身。在开发了一个关于护理人员排班主题的网站后，本研究旨在比较参与上述主题教学过程的学生在使用和不使用计算机技术的情况下的发展情况。巴西圣保罗州一所公立大学的两组随机抽取的本科护理专业学生被组织起来：一个案例组（使用该网站）和一个对照组（不使用该网站）。在获得研究伦理委员会批准后，于2003年至2005年收集数据。结果显示在动机或知识获取方面没有显著差异。两组的表现也相似。观察到的其他方面包括进行护理人员排班练习的困难以及学生对该主题对其培训和职业生活重要性的认可；易于访问被认为是维护该网站的一个积极方面。
