Exam Wrappers in Nursing Education: A Metacognitive Tool to Improve Performance.

Background: Metacognition can assist students in improving poor examination (exam) performance. An exam wrapper is a metacognitive tool used to assess a student's thought processes and behavioral patterns during test-taking.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of an exam wrapper tool used during one-to-one exam review sessions with faculty on prelicensure nursing students' subsequent exam performance.

Classroom Concepts in the Clinical Setting: Student Perceptions of Concept Cards.

Concept-based curricula have been widely implemented to combat content oversaturation in undergraduate nursing education. While nursing programs have focused on changing the classroom environment, only a few have integrated conceptual learning into clinical education. This qualitative descriptive study measured student perceptions of the effectiveness of concept cards, a concept-based clinical learning activity, in maternity and medical-surgical clinical sites.

A Concept Analysis of Conceptual Learning: A Guide for Educators.

Background: Concept-based curricula, coupled with conceptual approach to teaching, fosters conceptual learning. There is a need for clarity in the definition of conceptual learning.

Method: Walker and Avant's method of concept analysis was used.