Have you changed your mind?: a class-based SoTL investigation of senior nursing student perceptions and learning experiences regarding health misinformation and science skepticism
| dc.contributor.author | Nelson, Jody | |
| dc.contributor.author | McKendrick Calder, Lisa | |
| dc.contributor.author | Su, Wanhua | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-16T15:21:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-16T15:21:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description | Presented on June 11, 2025, at the 2025 STHLE/SAPES Annual Conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The growing prevalence of online health misinformation and accompanying increase in negative ideological predispositions towards science are contributing to societal mistrust in health authorities with detrimental consequences to public health. Nursing graduates must be prepared to practice within this rapidly evolving health information context, armed with the knowledge, self-awareness, and evaluative strategies to identify health misinformation, practice healthy science skepticism, and intervene when confronted with misinformation that impacts patient and public health. Yet, digital health literacy rates among post-secondary nursing students are low and our traditional information literacy teaching strategies, with the focus on internal measures of source quality and reliability, do not translate well in the unregulated online information environment. New teaching approaches are needed to equip nursing students with an understanding of online information ecosystem functioning and the influence of ideological beliefs, and fact-checking strategies for assessing health information found online. Winter 2025 semester, the nursing course instructor and librarian collaborated to teach a senior nursing elective class on online health misinformation, disinformation, and science beliefs. Taking a systems-thinking-approach, students engage in learning through readings, self-reflection, group discussion, and hands-on practice with different tools and models. Our collaborative Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project employs a pre-class survey to first establish a baseline understanding of student-perceived online health literacy, beliefs about science, and misinformation practices through a pre-class survey. The post-class survey will explore resulting changes in student knowledge and perceptions in these areas, and asks students about their experiences with the classroom learning. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/4065 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.subject | Information literacy strategies | |
| dc.subject | Nursing education pedagogy | |
| dc.subject | Online health misinformation | |
| dc.title | Have you changed your mind?: a class-based SoTL investigation of senior nursing student perceptions and learning experiences regarding health misinformation and science skepticism | en |
| dc.type | Presentation |