Facilitating undergraduate students’ problem-solving and critical thinking competence via online escape room learning

Yang, Chin-Lan; Chang, Ching-Yi; Jen, Hsiu-Ju

doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103828

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“…All the studies included in our review are quasi-experimental, except for two RCTs by Rodriguez-Ferrer et al [22] and Fusco et al [24]. Regarding the quasi-experimental studies, only five studies had a control group [14,18,21,25,27]. Therefore, a priority aspect that emerges from our results is the need to conduct RCTs that provide more solid evidence on the effectiveness of ER as an educational technology.…”

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Effectiveness of “Escape Room” Educational Technology in Nurses’ Education: A Systematic Review.

González-de la Torre,

Henández-De Luis,

Mies-Padilla

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Escape room’s games are educational gamification technologies that consist of introducing a team of players into a physical or digital space to solve a mystery or a problem in search of clues to solve puzzles, riddles, or enigmas. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of escape room’s games on the training of nurses and nursing students. A systematic review was carried out in MEDLINE, WOS, SCOPUS, CINAHL and LILACS databases using the MeSH terms: "Education, Nursing" and "Educational Technology", and the free term "Escape room", combining with Boolean operators AND/OR. Intervention studies in Spanish, English and Portuguese were included, without limitation for the year of publication. Selection and critical appraisal were conducted by two independent reviewers. A total of n=15 interventional studies were included (n=2 Randomized Clinical Trials and n=12 quasi-experimental). Escape rooms are a recent and booming educational methodology, which is increasingly used in academia and training of nurses and nursing students; however, it is necessary to expand their use to more countries, as well as the number and quality of interventional studies, being necessary to homogenize and standardize criteria and to use validated instruments to evaluate the effectiveness of escape rooms in the field of nursing.

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confidence: 94%

Effectiveness of “Escape Room” Educational Technology in Nurses’ Education: A Systematic Review.

González-de la Torre,

Henández-De Luis,

Mies-Padilla

et al. 2024

Preprint

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“…All the studies included in our review are quasi-experimental, except for two RCTs by Rodriguez-Ferrer et al [ 21 ] and Fusco et al [ 23 ]. Regarding the quasi-experimental studies, only five studies had a control group [ 15 , 17 , 20 , 24 , 26 ]. Therefore, a priority aspect that emerges from our results is the need to conduct RCTs that provide more solid evidence of the effectiveness of ER games as an educational technology.…”

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confidence: 99%

Effectiveness of “Escape Room” Educational Technology in Nurses’ Education: A Systematic Review

González-de la Torre,

Hernández-De Luis,

Mies-Padilla

et al. 2024

Nursing Reports

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Escape room games are educational gamification technologies that consist of introducing a team of players into a physical or digital space in search of clues to answer puzzles, riddles or enigmas and solve a mystery or problem. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of escape room games on the training of nursing students in an international context. A systematic review was carried out in MEDLINE, WOS, SCOPUS, CINAHL and LILACS databases using the MeSH terms “Education, Nursing” and “Educational Technology”, and the free term “Escape room”, combined with Boolean operators AND/OR. Intervention studies in Spanish, English and Portuguese were included, without limitation for the year of publication. Selection and critical appraisal were conducted by two independent reviewers. A total of n = 13 interventional studies were included (n = 2 Randomized Clinical Trials and n = 11 quasi-experimental design). Escape rooms are a recent and growing educational methodology, increasingly used in academia and in the training of nurses and nursing students. However, it is necessary to expand their use and the quality of the studies in a greater number of contexts. Furthermore, it is necessary to homogenize and standardize validated instruments to evaluate the effectiveness of escape rooms in the nursing education area.

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“…A meta-analysis of 46 people by Wei et al (Wei et al, 2023) showed that problem-based learning can help nursing students improve their critical thinking. Yang's research (Yang et al, 2023) showed that online escape room learning can improve nursing students' problem-solving skills and critical thinking skills.…”

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Nursing postgraduates learning experience of professional curriculum in China: A qualitative study

Jiang,

Zhang,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Nursing Open

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AimThis study adopted the qualitative research method, aiming to explore the learning experience of nursing graduate professional curricula in China from the perspective of students and provided a basis for the continuous improvement of nursing graduate training.DesignA qualitative study.MethodsA purposive sampling method was employed to conduct semi‐structured in‐depth interviews with 14 nursing master's students enrolled in professional curricula from September 03, 2021, to December 8, 2022. The Colaizzi seven‐step analysis method was utilized for data analysis, summarization and extraction.ResultsFour themes emerged from the study findings: (i) The study of professional curricula is the cornerstone of scientific research work, but it is relatively boring; (ii) The teaching methods and assessment methods of postgraduate education need to be diversified; (iii) The postgraduate education needs to increase the study time of specialized courses and highlight the specialty characteristics; (iv) the study of professional curricula can enhance the comprehensive ability of postgraduate students.ConclusionThe study of professional curricula for post‐graduate nursing students plays an important role in the development of post‐graduate research and can statistically significant improve their comprehensive ability, but there are some problems such as boring courses, single teaching assessment methods and insufficient time. In the future teaching reform, it is necessary to highlight the specialty characteristics of nursing scientific research, optimize curriculum education and improve students' scientific research knowledge and thinking.Patient and Public ContributionsWe thank all participants for their valuable input throughout the study.

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Facilitating undergraduate students’ problem-solving and critical thinking competence via online escape room learning

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

Effectiveness of “Escape Room” Educational Technology in Nurses’ Education: A Systematic Review.

Effectiveness of “Escape Room” Educational Technology in Nurses’ Education: A Systematic Review.

Effectiveness of “Escape Room” Educational Technology in Nurses’ Education: A Systematic Review

Nursing postgraduates learning experience of professional curriculum in China: A qualitative study

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