Nursing undergraduate students participating in a virtual reality simulation program

Nursing undergraduate students receiving attention-matched training

Virtual reality applications are a type of three-dimensional computer-based simulation that gives a sense of being anywhere and provides various data to the sense organs for this. However, virtual reality applications are a simulation model that creates a sense of reality for the participants and allows mutual communication with a computer-based dynamic environment.

In order to determine the cognitive learning of the students, questionnaires consisting of 20 multiple-choice questions for each subject and to be evaluated over 100 points will be created. A literature review will be made for the creation of questionnaires and these forms will be created to determine cognitive competencies in line with the educational content. Validity and reliability studies will be conducted to test the usability of the forms.

Perceived Learning Scale Rovai et al. (2009) developed by. The validity and reliability studies of the scale were performed by Albayrak et al. (2004) with 227 university students. The scale has 9 items and three factors, and the first factor is "Cognitive", which includes three items aiming to measure cognitively perceived learning. The second factor was named "Affective", which includes three items aiming to measure learning perceived as affective, and the third factor, "Psychomotor", which aims to measure learning perceived as psychomotor. A score between 9 and 63 is obtained from the entire scale. An increase in the scale score indicates an increase in the perceived learning level. The Cronbach's alpha, which includes all nine items of the scale for internal consistency, was .83.

Training methods satisfaction questionnaire was developed by Gürpınar (Cronbach alpha: 0.84) and used in his studies. The questionnaire consists of 16 propositions. One of these propositions is the proposition "I am satisfied with this education method in general", which questions the state of being satisfied with the education. Other propositions were formed from propositions aiming to determine the views of the education method in general about the contribution of the education method to the learning and professional life of the student. It is determined that as the scale score average increases, the satisfaction of the students in the education method increases, and as the scale score average decreases, their satisfaction in the education method decreases. In the evaluation of the scale, students are given a minimum of 16 and a maximum of 80 points for their satisfaction with education methods. Atan et al. (2019), the Cronbach alpha value of the scale was found to be 0.90.