Enseñanza & Teaching (Dec 2017)
Motivations, needs and importance attributed to continous training in the development of professional skills of teaching staff in nursing education
Abstract
This study, of descriptive nature, had as its main purpose to investigate the importance that nursing education professors, in public higher education institutions, in Portugal, assign to continuous training on the development of professional skills, taking into account the professors main motivations to participate in training activities and/or continued development and their needs of further continuous training.157 randomly selected professors, who completed a questionnaire, participated on it. In its assessment by judges/experts, a 0,94 content validation index was achieved. Regarding the reliability of the measuring tool in the «Motivations for engagement in training actions and/or continuous professional development» category, there was a Cronbach’s Alpha of 0,811, in the «Continuous training present needs» category, a Cronbach’s Alpha of 0,876 was presented and finally, in the dimension «Emphasis placed on the continuous training in the development of higher education professor skills» a Cronbach’s Alpha of 0,978 was shown, compliant with a high internal consistency.The achieved results allow us to imply that these professors give credit to the continuous training on the development of professional skills, with emphasis on the skills of «Preparing the content of the curriculum units», «Assure tutorial orientation», «Communicate with the students», «Evaluate», «Use of information and communication technologies» and «Planning the teaching-learning process». The «Practical Reasons» and the «Emancipatory Reasons», stand out in the motivations that move professors to participate in training and/or continuous development actions and, with regard to the current needs of continuous training, the ones related to investigating, use of information and communication technologies and evaluation stand out.
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