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APPENDIX A

RUBRICS, QUESTIONS, AND TABLES

 

A1

Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric (HCTSR)

4. Consistently does all or almost all of the following:

3. Does most or many of the following:

2. Does most or many of the following:

1. Consistently does all or almost all of the following:

Resource: (Facione & Facione, 1996a)

A2

Teacher's Evaluations of Students Using HCTRS

Names Group Number Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Average
Ching 120 3 3 3
Abe 120 3 2 2.5
Nora 121 3 2 2.5
Rhonda 121 3 2 2.5
Diane 122 3 2 2.5
Rogenia 122 3 2 2.5
Tracia 123 4 4 4
Mari 123 2 2 2
Michael 124 3 2 2.5
Crystal 124 4 4 4
Cheri 125 3 3 3
Rosalee 125 3 2 2.5
Sheila 126 3 3 3
Gerson 126 3 2 2.5
Jim 127 2 2
Deborah 127 4 2 3
Matt 128 3 2 2.5
Carol 128 4 3 3.5
Becky 129 4 4 4
Lauri 129 2 2 2

A3 POST CLINICAL REFLECTIONS:

As a part of the learning process in the clinical setting, you are to keep a journal about what you have learned. Included in this journal are the following questions. You must answer these questions in the notebook provided for you.

1. Looking back, do you think that the problems that you identified were the most important ones for the patients? What additional problems do you now identify as the result of caring for the patients?

2. Identify a problem or a need that arose during the shift. Explain the circumstances of this problem including whom, what, when, where, and how urgent was the problem.

3. What knowledge was required for you to solve the problem?

4. What resources helped you to solve the problem?

5. What steps did you take to help solve the problem?

6. What influenced your thinking about this problem?

7. What were your strengths for this clinical experience?

8. What were your weaknesses and tell how you will strengthen these weaknesses the next clinical experience?

9. What were other thoughts and feelings about your clinical experience today?

A4 Reflective Analysis Rubric

___ 1. A. Identifies one major significant problem.

___ B. Identifies other related problems, may include reasons for the problem.

___ 2. A. Identifies a problem that arose.

___ B. Explains reason for urgency or lack of urgency.

___ 3. A. Identifies one piece of knowledge needed to solve the problem.

___ B. Identifies connecting pieces of information needed.

___ 4. A. Uses external resources when appropriate to solve the problem.

___ B. Recognizes personal resources as a resource.

___ 5. A. Identifies all logical steps as a part of implementation process.

___ 6. A. Uses reliable external reasons to influence thinking.

___ B. Uses internal reason to influence thinking.

___ 7. A. Identifies one strength connected to patient care.

___ 8. A. Identifies one weakness connected with patient care.

___ B.. Explains how to improve on his or her weakness.

___9. A. Names obvious thoughts and feelings connected to patient experience.

___ B. Expand on reasons for thoughts or feelings noted from the experience.

The reflective analysis rubric was used to analyze the answers to the questions in the journal. The question numbers correspond with the numbers in the reflection journal. For each of the blank lines preceding the numbers and letters, one point is awarded if information is present and correctly processed. Of the total of 16 points, 7 (the B areas) are identified indicators of reflections.

A5 Reflective Scores for Unpaired Students Over 9 weeks

Weeks

Name

Journal

Number

 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Margaret 119 RT OR 1 1 1 1 0 2 1
Rosemary 113 RT OR 4 3 2 4 2 3 4
Robin 116 2 RT OR 3 2 2 4 3 5
Rose 115 2 RT OR 3 AB 0 1 2 5
Carol 107 4 5 OR 2 2 2 1 2 2
Ellen 103 4 7 3 2 1 3 5 1 2
Nancy 118 2 1 4 3 5 OR 1 0 3
Terry 114 0 2 2 3 1 OR RT 2 2
Crystal 105 2 1 0 0 0 2 OR 0 1
Marie 112 AB 2 5 2 3 3 OR 4 5
Ann 109 2 2 2 1 2 4 1 4 OR
Cindy 117 6 4 6 2 4 4 6 RT OR
Bill 108 2 4 3 3 2 0 0 OR 2
Patricia 111 4 2 2 3 OR 4 3 AB RT
Steve 104 3 4 4 OR 3 2 1 2 3
Anita 110 7 7 6 RT OR 4 5 6 4
Linda 106 3 2 5 5 RT OR 3 2 3
Kathy 101 7 6 6 6 OR 6 6 3 5
Joan 102 6 4 6 3 3 4 5 OR 5
Mean Score 3.5 3.5 3.7 2.65 2.2 2.8 2.75 2.4 3.25

Total Score was 7
OR = Operating Room
RT =Respiratory Therapy
AB = Absent

A6 Simple Linear Regression Analysis for Change in Mean Problem-Solving (Criteria A) Scores Over 9 Weeks for Unpaired Students (N=17)

Variable R2 Signif F B
Week .0009 .7146 .0131

Percentage of the Unpaired Group's Answers to Criteria A Over 9 Weeks

Weeks

Questions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Average
1 87.5 93 100 88 93 94 100 100 94 94
2 100 100 100 94 93 100 94 100 100 98
3 75 73 87 82 57 87.5 62.5 93 87.5 78
4 100 100 100 100 100 100 87.5 100 87.5 97
5 75 80 81 65 78.5 87.5 75 80 87.5 79
6 94 87 100 100 93 100 81 93 100 94
7 100 100 100 94 100 94 87.5 93 94 96
8 100 87 94 94 93 87.5 87.5 93 87.5 91.5
9 94 93 87.5 88 93 100 87.5 80 87.5 90

A7 Simple Linear Regression Analysis for Change in Mean Reflective (Criteria B) Scores Over 9 Weeks for Unpaired Students (N=17)

Variable R2 Signif F B
Week .021 .0867 -.1002

Percentage of Answered Questions for Reflective Element (Criteria B) for Unpaired Students Over 9 Weeks

Weeks

Questions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Average
1 56 67 55 53 50 88 69 67 50 62
2 50 60 44 35 29 38 38 13 25 37
3 31 33 25 18 07 25 25 02 19 21
4 19 33 44 18 21 19 25 27 19 25
6 44 60 63 41 14 44 31 2 19 35
8 69 67 69 82 71 50 56 53 44 62
9 53 67 50 35 50 50 44 40 62 50

A8

Reflective Score for Pairs Over 9 weeks

Weeks

Journal Number

Names

HCTSR

Average

 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

120

Ching

Abe

3

2.5

 2 7 7 3 6 4 OR RT 7

121

Nora

Rhonda

2.5

2.5

 5 2 4 3 OR RT 3 6 4

122

Diane

Rogenia

2.5

2.5

 OR 3 4 5 4 5 4 7 RT

123

Tracia

Mari

4

2

 OR RT 2 6 6 5 6 7 7

124

Crystal

Michael

4

2.5

 3 6 OR RT 6 AB 4 6 AB

125

Cheri

Rosalee

3

2.5

 1 3 1 AB 2 4 RT OR 4

126

Sheila

Gerson

3

2.5

 5 4 4 5 RT OR 5 5 AB

127

Jim

Deborah

2

3

 0 4 5 5 4 5 6 RT OR

128

Carol

Matt

3.5

2.5

 OR RT 6 6 7 7 6 AB 7

129

Becky

Lauri

4

2

 3 5 OR 5 4 2 5 OR AB
Mean Score 2.7 4.25 4.1 4.75 4.9 4.6 4.9 6.2 5.8

Total Score was 7
OR = Operating Room
RT =Respiratory Therapy
AB = Absent

A9 Simple Linear Regression Analysis for Change in Mean Problem-Solving (Criteria A) Scores Over 9 Weeks for Paired Students (N=10 pairs)

Variable R2 Signif F B
Week .0344 .1423 .0411

Percentage of the Paired Group's responses measuring Criteria A Over 9 Weeks

Weeks

Questions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Average
1 86 100 100 100 100 86 100 100 100 97
2 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
3 86 100 75 100 100 86 100 80 80 90
4 86 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 80 96
5 86 100 100 87.5 100 100 100 100 100 97
6 100 100 87.5 100 87.5 100 100 100 100 97
7 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
8 100 100 87.5 100 100 100 75 100 100 96
9 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

A10 Simple Linear Regression Analysis for Change in Mean Reflective Scores Over 9 Weeks for Paired Students (N=10 pairs)

Variable R2 Signif F B
Week .2061 .0002 .31

Percentage of Answered Questions of Reflective Element (Criteria B) for Paired Students Over 9 Weeks

Weeks

Questions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Average
1 43 100 75 50 63 100 100 100 60 77
2 43 75 63 63 63 43 88 100 100 71
3 28 38 50 38 63 57 50 80 60 52
4 0 63 25 25 50 71 50 80 60 47
6 43 75 63 50 88 86 63 80 80 70
8 43 75 88 100 100 86 75 100 100 85
9 0 13 50 63 38 28 38 80 100 46

A11

T-test of Independent Samples of GROUP for Means of A Criteria

Variable

Number

of Cases

 Mean SD

Scores

Unpaired

Paired

140

64

8.23

8.78

1.10

.54

T-test for Equality of Means

Variances t-value df 2-Tail Sig
Equal 3.72 204 .00

T-test for independent Samples of GROUP For Means of B Criteria

Variable

Number

of Cases

 Mean SD

SCORES

Unpaired

Paired

140

64

3.02

4.59

1.78

1.69

T-test for Equality of Means

Variances t-value df 2-Tail Sig
Equal 5.94 202 .000