IMPROVING NURSING-EDUCATION CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENTS

This study describes the first use of a classroom environment question naire with a class in nursing education. An instructor of nursing stud ents monitored classes using such a questionnaire. The questionnaire u sed was the College and University Classroom Environment inventory and it was used to obtain practical and useful information about the lear ning environment in two different classes. Collaborative changes were made in the classes to improve the classroom environment and consequen tly the learning situation. Any instructor of nursing students could u se this same process with this instrument.