Abstract
Background and Objectives: High-stakes didactic testing assesses competency. Exams are stressful, and decreasing anxiety may enhance learning. Academic progression and graduation rates may result when higher levels of hopeful thinking (the belief in one’s ability to achieve desired goals), and certain achievement goal orientation (why one desires to succeed) are present.
Methods: This non-experimental study engaged undergraduate nursing students via surveys to examined relationships among hopeful thinking, goal orientation, and scores on standardized high-stakes examination of students.
Results: Regression analyses (N = 151) indicated that hopeful thinking was significantly related to higher exam scores, and that performance-avoidance goal scores were significantly related to lower scores.
Conclusion: The positive relationship between hopeful thinking and exam scores suggests the need to consider supporting hopeful thinking in nursing education. Additional research may explicate the relationship between performance-avoidance and scores on high-stakes exams.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Using “Think Aloud” to Capture Clinical Reasoning during Patient Simulation
- Translation and Evaluation of the Cultural Awareness Scale for Korean Nursing Students
- Making the Most of Simulated Learning: Understanding and Managing Perceptions
- Nursing Students’ Experiences with High-Fidelity Simulation
- An Integrative Review: Instructional Strategies to Improve Nurses’ Retention of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Priorities
- Effects of Team-Based Learning on Self-Regulated Online Learning
- Teaching Nursing Leadership: Comparison of Simulation versus Traditional Inpatient Clinical
- The Experience of Nursing Students Who Make Mistakes in Clinical
- Identification of the Learning Styles and “On-the-Job” Learning Methods Implemented by Nurses for Promoting Their Professional Knowledge and Skills
- Orientation, Evaluation, and Integration of Part-Time Nursing Faculty
- Perceptions of Clinical Stress in Baccalaureate Nursing Students
- The Flipped Classroom: Fertile Ground for Nursing Education Research
- Student Engagement: A Principle-Based Concept Analysis
- Assessment of High-Stakes Testing, Hopeful Thinking, and Goal Orientation among Baccalaureate Nursing Students
- Partners in Research: Developing a Model for Undergraduate Faculty-Student Collaboration
- Nursing Students Achieving Community Health Competencies through Undergraduate Clinical Experiences: A Gap Analysis
- Student Perceptions of Quality and Safety Competencies
- Integrating a Career Planning and Development Program into the Baccalaureate Nursing Curriculum: Part I. Impact on Students’ Career Resilience
- Integrating a Career Planning and Development Program into the Baccalaureate Nursing Curriculum. Part II. Outcomes for New Graduate Nurses 12 Months Post-Graduation
- Integrating a Career Planning and Development Program into the Baccalaureate Nursing Curriculum: Part III. Impact on Faculty’s Career Satisfaction and Confidence in Providing Student Career Coaching
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Using “Think Aloud” to Capture Clinical Reasoning during Patient Simulation
- Translation and Evaluation of the Cultural Awareness Scale for Korean Nursing Students
- Making the Most of Simulated Learning: Understanding and Managing Perceptions
- Nursing Students’ Experiences with High-Fidelity Simulation
- An Integrative Review: Instructional Strategies to Improve Nurses’ Retention of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Priorities
- Effects of Team-Based Learning on Self-Regulated Online Learning
- Teaching Nursing Leadership: Comparison of Simulation versus Traditional Inpatient Clinical
- The Experience of Nursing Students Who Make Mistakes in Clinical
- Identification of the Learning Styles and “On-the-Job” Learning Methods Implemented by Nurses for Promoting Their Professional Knowledge and Skills
- Orientation, Evaluation, and Integration of Part-Time Nursing Faculty
- Perceptions of Clinical Stress in Baccalaureate Nursing Students
- The Flipped Classroom: Fertile Ground for Nursing Education Research
- Student Engagement: A Principle-Based Concept Analysis
- Assessment of High-Stakes Testing, Hopeful Thinking, and Goal Orientation among Baccalaureate Nursing Students
- Partners in Research: Developing a Model for Undergraduate Faculty-Student Collaboration
- Nursing Students Achieving Community Health Competencies through Undergraduate Clinical Experiences: A Gap Analysis
- Student Perceptions of Quality and Safety Competencies
- Integrating a Career Planning and Development Program into the Baccalaureate Nursing Curriculum: Part I. Impact on Students’ Career Resilience
- Integrating a Career Planning and Development Program into the Baccalaureate Nursing Curriculum. Part II. Outcomes for New Graduate Nurses 12 Months Post-Graduation
- Integrating a Career Planning and Development Program into the Baccalaureate Nursing Curriculum: Part III. Impact on Faculty’s Career Satisfaction and Confidence in Providing Student Career Coaching