Lancia Loreto, Petrucci Cristina, Giorgi Fabio, Dante Angelo, Cifone Maria Grazia
Department of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Coppito, L'Aquila, Italy.
Nurse Educ Today. 2013 Dec;33(12):1501-5. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2013.05.001. Epub 2013 May 22.
Nursing student academic failure is a phenomenon of growing international interest, not only because of its economic impact but also because it negatively affects the availability of future nurses in different healthcare systems. To recruit the students with the highest probability of academic success, an open challenge for universities is to recruit students who have previously demonstrated superior scholastic aptitudes that appear to be associated with a greater likelihood of academic success. Documenting the relationship between the selection methods used when selecting nursing students and academic failure will contribute to the international debate concerning the optimisation of the selection strategies.
The principal aim of this study was to investigate the role in predicting nursing student academic success of (1) the upper-secondary diploma grades and (2) the score obtained by students in the nursing degree program admission test.
A retrospective observational study was conducted.
Five cohorts of nursing students, matriculated in consecutive academic years from 2004 to 2008, in an Italian bachelor's degree program were observed retrospectively.
Overall, 61.2% of the 1006 considered students concluded their degree within the legal duration allowed for the nursing degree. Students who failed were those who had lowest grades associated with their upper-secondary diploma coursework (p=0.000) and were male (p=0.000). The grades associated with the upper-secondary diploma coursework, unlike the admission test score, correlates positively with the final degree grade and the average value of degree program examination scores. No correlation was found between the upper-secondary diploma coursework grades and the scores obtained in the test for the nursing degree program admission test (r=-0.037).
These results suggest that upper-secondary diploma coursework grades are a parameter that should receive great consideration, especially in cases where there are planned numbers of incoming nursing degree students.
护理专业学生学业失败是一个在国际上日益受到关注的现象，这不仅是因为其经济影响，还因为它对不同医疗体系中未来护士的供应产生负面影响。为了招收最有可能在学业上取得成功的学生，大学面临的一个公开挑战是招收那些先前已展现出卓越学术能力的学生，而这些能力似乎与更高的学业成功可能性相关。记录护理专业学生选拔方法与学业失败之间的关系，将有助于关于优化选拔策略的国际辩论。
本研究的主要目的是调查（1）高中文凭成绩和（2）学生在护理学位课程入学考试中获得的分数在预测护理专业学生学业成功方面所起的作用。
进行了一项回顾性观察研究。
回顾性观察了2004年至2008年连续学年在意大利一个学士学位护理专业项目中入学的五批护理专业学生。
总体而言，在1006名被研究的学生中，61.2%在护理学位法定允许期限内完成了学业。学业失败的学生是那些高中文凭课程成绩最低的学生（p = 0.000）以及男性学生（p = 0.000）。与高中文凭课程相关的成绩，与入学考试分数不同，与最终学位成绩以及学位课程考试成绩的平均值呈正相关。高中文凭课程成绩与护理学位课程入学考试成绩之间未发现相关性（r = -0.037）。
这些结果表明，高中文凭课程成绩是一个应予以高度重视的参数，尤其是在计划招收一定数量护理学位新生的情况下。
