Abstract
BackgroundMotivation is a crucial factor in determining the student-learning process. Integrating the Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction (ARCS) motivation model into the Nursing English course has the potential to motivate nursing students and improve their learning outcomes. ObjectivesTo apply motivational tactics to the Nursing English course and explore the effects on the learning motivation, engagement, and performance of vocational college nursing students. DesignA quasi-experimental study. SettingThe study was conducted at a vocational college in XXXX. ParticipantsA total of 229 sophomore nursing students (experimental group = 114; comparison group = 115) participated. MethodsMotivation-based teaching was applied to the experimental group, while traditional lecture-based teaching was used with the comparison group. The Course Interest Survey (CIS) was used to measure student learning motivation; the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale—Student (UWES-S) was used to assess student learning engagement (both pre- and posttest). Midterm and final examination scores were used to compare the learning performance between both groups. ResultsThere were no significant differences between both groups at the pretest in the CIS, UWES-S, and midterm examination scores. Significant group ∗ time interactions were found for CIS, UWES-S, and examination scores. The simple effect analysis showed that the experimental group's CIS, UWES-S, and examination scores were significantly higher than the comparison group at the posttest. Furthermore, the motivation-based teaching led to significant improvements in the CIS scores (from 3.12 [0.43] to 3.66 [0.34], p < 0.001), UWES-S scores (from 3.72 [0.53] to 4.05 [0.69], p < 0.001) and the CIS and UWES-S sub-scale scores of the experimental group. No changes were observed in the comparison group. The experimental group showed more remarkable improvement than the comparison group in examination scores. ConclusionsMotivation-based teaching effectively improved learning motivation, learning engagement, and learning performance of students in the Nursing English course.
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