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ABSTRACT
The focused goals of the study is to identify the problems encountered by the senior nursing students under the new curriculum CMO 14 in making a research thesis considering the different factors identified such as student factors, research instructor factors, research adviser factors and curriculum factors. The study was conducted at Saint Mary’s University, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya specifically in the School of Health Sciences. The respondents of the study were the senior nursing students officially enrolled in Nursing Research 2. The researchers adopted the descriptive correlational method of research. The Slovin’s formula with the sampling error was used to determine the sample size. Stratified random sampling was used in this study to enhance the representativeness of every section of the officially enrolled senior nursing students in Nursing Research 2. One hundred thirty eight (138) senior nursing students were randomly chosen from the five (5) sections to answer the questionnaire. The questionnaire was prepared and validated by the 5 instructors. Then, it was distributed and answered by the selected students from the different sections officially enrolled in Nursing Research 2. Upon the retrieval of the questionnaire, all the data gathered were collated, tabulated and analyzed with the results as follows:
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS 1. Characteristics of the senior nursing students with respect to gender
Out of 138 respondents 51 were male comprising 37.0% of the population while 87 or 63 % comprised the female. 2. Characteristics of the senior nursing students with respect to academic classification
Ninety-two percent of the respondents belong to non scholar group. Nine or 6.5% belongs to dean 's lister group and only 1.4% belongs to half/full tuition scholar group. 3. Characteristics of the senior nursing students with respect to the attitudes towards making a thesis.
On the attitudes towards making a thesis, the highest
The focused goals of the study is to identify the problems encountered by the senior nursing students under the new curriculum CMO 14 in making a research thesis considering the different factors identified such as student factors, research instructor factors, research adviser factors and curriculum factors. The study was conducted at Saint Mary’s University, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya specifically in the School of Health Sciences. The respondents of the study were the senior nursing students officially enrolled in Nursing Research 2. The researchers adopted the descriptive correlational method of research. The Slovin’s formula with the sampling error was used to determine the sample size. Stratified random sampling was used in this study to enhance the representativeness of every section of the officially enrolled senior nursing students in Nursing Research 2. One hundred thirty eight (138) senior nursing students were randomly chosen from the five (5) sections to answer the questionnaire. The questionnaire was prepared and validated by the 5 instructors. Then, it was distributed and answered by the selected students from the different sections officially enrolled in Nursing Research 2. Upon the retrieval of the questionnaire, all the data gathered were collated, tabulated and analyzed with the results as follows:
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS 1. Characteristics of the senior nursing students with respect to gender
Out of 138 respondents 51 were male comprising 37.0% of the population while 87 or 63 % comprised the female. 2. Characteristics of the senior nursing students with respect to academic classification
Ninety-two percent of the respondents belong to non scholar group. Nine or 6.5% belongs to dean 's lister group and only 1.4% belongs to half/full tuition scholar group. 3. Characteristics of the senior nursing students with respect to the attitudes towards making a thesis.
On the attitudes towards making a thesis, the highest
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