THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTEGRATING GENDER AWARENESS INTO CURRICULUM LEARNING OF KIRKPATRICK'S MODEL

Yueh-Chin Chung, Ph.D.*

ABSTRACT

Background: This study aims to investigate The Effectiveness of Integrating Gender Awareness into Curriculum Learning of Kirkpatrick's Model. Research Purposes: A questionnaire survey method were employed in this study. Kirkpatrick's model was used to analyze the learning effects of 46 grade three students of the Department of Nursing of a university. SPSS 22.0 was used to analyze the data. The contents include percentage, average, correlation, t-test method. Results: (1) A total of 80.4% of the 46 samples were female (37), with ages ranging from 20 to 24 years. Among them, 8 (17.4%) took the gender awareness curriculum; 2 (4.3%) obtained 1 or 2 credits, and, 6 (13.0%) obtained 1–2 credit hours for the gender awareness curriculum. (2) The average scores before and after the gender awareness curriculum were 3.55 (0.59) and 3.62 (0.55), respectively. The latter was significantly higher than the former. (3) An average score of 4.16 (0.27) was obtained after evaluating the effects of education and training. Reaction dimension, Learning dimension, Action dimension, and Result dimension in order. (4) Objects were significantly different in the Learning dimension as an effect of gender (t = 2.20; p < 0.05). Males scored higher compared with females in the Learning dimension. Age also had an effect on the Learning dimension (t = 2.64; p < 0.05). Individuals more than 25 years of age scored higher compared with those 20 to 24 years of age in the Learning dimension. (5) Reaction, Learning, Action, and Result dimensions showed positive correlations. Conclusions: This study analyzes the effects of education and training range from moderate to high. The degree of satisfaction with intervention is high. The results provide a reference for teaching of community health nursing in the future.

Keywords: Gender awareness; Integrated course; Kirkpatrick's Model for evaluating; Effectiveness.