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Policy implication of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila-College of Nursing battery examination as a screening tool for incoming BSN III students / 6 6 Algelan M. Pineda - - - xiii, 146 pages - - - - - . - . - 0 . - . - 0 .
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ABSTRACT: Battery Tests or Aptitude and ability tests are designed to assess student's logical reasoning or thinking performance. The test result will be deliberated and reviewed so that judgments can be made regarding student knowledge and abilities in terms of their nursing career in the future. This examination is commonly used to determine the general standing with respect to student's performance. Way back, April 2004, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila conducted their inaugural battery examination for the nursing students. The reason for this was that there is an increase in the number of enrollees which started in SY 2002-2003 and virtually a 400% increase in the number of freshmen students in the college. The implementing guidelines of the retention policy for nursing students for level III had it stated rationale the imperative need of the PLM College of Nursing, being recognized as one of the top nursing schools in the country, to make innovations to maintain the quality of nursing graduates that it produces. In lieu of this, the researcher, being the college secretary of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila-College of Nursing aimed to evaluate the policy implications of this battery examination to be able to use it as a screening tool for the incoming BSN III students. This was the ultimate purpose for the conduction of this study.by the Retrospective documentary analysis was performed by the researcher, utilizing the battery examination score and the general weighted averages in the first semester and second semester at the year level of the students in school year 2004-2005 as reflected in the PLM-College of Nursing official records. The nursing students who took and passed the same examination in SY 2004-2005 and later on were able to complete the third year of their study in the college was the sample in the study. The researcher utilized the records of the battery examination for incoming level III students (with the permission of the college dean-Nilo Capangpangan)of the college of nursing broken down into cumulative GWA from the first year to second year, written examination score, and the general weighted average for the first semester and the second semester at the third year of the student respondents to determine and describe their academic profile. Frequency count and percentage was utilized as statistical analysis of the above variables. With regards to determining if there is any significant relationship among the different variables cited in problem number two, Pearson's was utilized. The study found out that the academic profile of the respondents in terms of cumulative GWA yielded the result of 70.29% indicating a good academic performance; in terms of written score, most of them got 75-81% scores, interpreted as satisfactory academic performance; while for the interview score, most of them yielded a score of 86-90%; in terms of the overall battery point, most of them got 76-79%. In terms of correlation of CGWA to academic performance in terms of GWA in the first semester and second semester of the BSN III level, it resulted in a moderate correlation, marked relationship; while the value of r obtained for the GWA in the second semester of the same year was also moderate level of correlation. The difference suggested a significant relationship between cumulative GWA from the first year and second year of the students who took the battery examinations and their subsequent GWA in the third year level. For the degree of relationship between written examination and GWA in the first semester and second semester of the BSN III level, the value of r was equated to a magnitude of low correlation and moderate correlation respectively.
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Policy implication of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila-College of Nursing battery examination as a screening tool for incoming BSN III students / 6 6 Algelan M. Pineda - - - xiii, 146 pages - - - - - . - . - 0 . - . - 0 .
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ABSTRACT: Battery Tests or Aptitude and ability tests are designed to assess student's logical reasoning or thinking performance. The test result will be deliberated and reviewed so that judgments can be made regarding student knowledge and abilities in terms of their nursing career in the future. This examination is commonly used to determine the general standing with respect to student's performance. Way back, April 2004, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila conducted their inaugural battery examination for the nursing students. The reason for this was that there is an increase in the number of enrollees which started in SY 2002-2003 and virtually a 400% increase in the number of freshmen students in the college. The implementing guidelines of the retention policy for nursing students for level III had it stated rationale the imperative need of the PLM College of Nursing, being recognized as one of the top nursing schools in the country, to make innovations to maintain the quality of nursing graduates that it produces. In lieu of this, the researcher, being the college secretary of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila-College of Nursing aimed to evaluate the policy implications of this battery examination to be able to use it as a screening tool for the incoming BSN III students. This was the ultimate purpose for the conduction of this study.by the Retrospective documentary analysis was performed by the researcher, utilizing the battery examination score and the general weighted averages in the first semester and second semester at the year level of the students in school year 2004-2005 as reflected in the PLM-College of Nursing official records. The nursing students who took and passed the same examination in SY 2004-2005 and later on were able to complete the third year of their study in the college was the sample in the study. The researcher utilized the records of the battery examination for incoming level III students (with the permission of the college dean-Nilo Capangpangan)of the college of nursing broken down into cumulative GWA from the first year to second year, written examination score, and the general weighted average for the first semester and the second semester at the third year of the student respondents to determine and describe their academic profile. Frequency count and percentage was utilized as statistical analysis of the above variables. With regards to determining if there is any significant relationship among the different variables cited in problem number two, Pearson's was utilized. The study found out that the academic profile of the respondents in terms of cumulative GWA yielded the result of 70.29% indicating a good academic performance; in terms of written score, most of them got 75-81% scores, interpreted as satisfactory academic performance; while for the interview score, most of them yielded a score of 86-90%; in terms of the overall battery point, most of them got 76-79%. In terms of correlation of CGWA to academic performance in terms of GWA in the first semester and second semester of the BSN III level, it resulted in a moderate correlation, marked relationship; while the value of r obtained for the GWA in the second semester of the same year was also moderate level of correlation. The difference suggested a significant relationship between cumulative GWA from the first year and second year of the students who took the battery examinations and their subsequent GWA in the third year level. For the degree of relationship between written examination and GWA in the first semester and second semester of the BSN III level, the value of r was equated to a magnitude of low correlation and moderate correlation respectively.
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/ 2
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