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Abstract Teaching is a profession which is only done by passion. Therefore, most of the time teachers use various teaching methods and techniques with spending time and effort to obtain a complete learning process and to reach to the expected outcomes. While preparing the methods to be used to reach the students, it is necessary for teachers to prepare themselves effectively (Uskov, Howlett & Jain 2016). This study was aimed to assess the preferred teaching methods as perceived by nursing students and nursing staff members and comparing between the perceptions of the two subject groups. Research methodology: Research design A descriptive comparative cross-sectional design was used to carry out this study. Study setting This study was carried out at faculty of nursing Ain Shams university include six different educational departments.Study subjects The subjects of this study included two groups, namely nursing students and nursing teaching staff members group. The first group was One hundred and threatens (113) nursing teaching staff members working at the previously mentioned educational departments. The second group was two hundred sixty three (263) nursing students out of (862) from the four academic years nursing students were included in the study sample distributed. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used for data collection of this study. 1- Questionnaire sheet for nursing students: This tool aimed at assessing the preferred teaching methods as perceived by nursing students. This tool is developed by researcher guided by (Baraham, 2002) & (Al-Maghraby & Al-Shamy 2013). It consisted of three parts. Part 1: This part intended to collect data related to the socio-demographic characteristics of the nursing students: as age, sex and academic year …etc. Part 2: This part was aimed at assessing teaching methods preferences as perceived by nursing students. It was including total (19 items) consisted of three dimensions. Part 3: This part was aimed at assessing the benefits of the preferred teaching methods for nursing students contains (26 items) 2- Questionnaire sheet for nursing teaching staff members: This tool aimed at assessing the teaching methods preference as perceived by nursing teaching staff members. This tool is developed by researcher guided by (Al-Maghraby & Al-Shamy 2013). It consisted of three parts. Part 1: This part intended to collect data related to socio-demographic data characteristics of the nursing teaching staff members as name, age, specialty, academic position and years of experience. Part 2: This part was aimed at assessing teaching methods preferences as perceived by nursing teaching staff members. It included total (19 items) consisted of three dimensions. Part 3: This part was aimed at assessing the benefits of the preferred teaching methods for nursing teaching staff members it contains (15 items).Study results The main study findings revealed the following: the mean score perspectives of nursing teaching staff members regarding teaching methods preferences related to classroom the most frequently reported mean was that class discussion. Conversely, the lowest reported mean was that lecture. In addition to the mean score perspectives of nursing teaching staff members regarding teaching methods preferences related to clinical setting. As evident from the table the most frequently reported mean was that demonstration. On the other hand, the lowest reported mean was that problem- based learning. there is a highly statistically significant relation between perspectives of the nursing teaching staff members and nursing students as regard teaching methods related to classroom, teaching methods related to clinical setting & teaching methods related to skill lab (P<0.01). |