What is it about?
The article report on a study investigating the relation between nursing students attendance at learning activities and their attainment.
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Why is it important?
The article evidently show that attendance at non mandatory learning activities has a clear impact on the nursing students' attainment and their passing of courses. It also show that it takes a certain amount of attendance to achieve this. The students can increase their chances more than five-folded if they increas their attendance from 0 % to 100 %.
Perspectives
The study illuminates the impact of lectures and the lecturer for students performance and suggests that this can't be replaced solely by self-studies.
Ms Åsa Rejnö
Skaraborg hospital and University West, Sweden
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This page is a summary of: Nursing students' attendance at learning activities in relation to attainment and passing courses: A prospective quantitative study, Nurse Education Today, March 2017, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.11.025.
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