STUDENT EVALUATION OF CLINICAL EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT

Chapter 5
Discussion and Conclusions
The purpose of the described research was to continue development and testing of the
Student Evaluation of Clinical Education Environment (SECEE) inventory. This inventory was
developed in response to the identified absence of any instrument that concisely and
comprehensively measures nursing student perceptions of their clinical learning environment.
The SECEE inventory appears to be able to accurately and reliably reflect student perceptions of
their learning environments, although minor revisions may make the instrument even more
comprehensive and reliable. In the discussion section the research findings are related to the
questions posed at the beginning of the study.
Research Question 1
Is it possible to revise the original SECEE instrument to include all issues critical to the nursing
student clinical education environment, while maintaining brevity and practicality of use by
nursing educators?
Brevity and Practicality of Use. As described in the review of literature, the original
SECEE instrument was revised extensively both to increase the scope of measurement of the
learning environment, and to reflect findings of current literature and analysis results from initial
administration of the inventory. The “revised” SECEE inventory is brief in comparison to many
learning environment inventories (Fraser, 1991). It also appears to be practical for use, as data
for this study were collected with ease by both the researcher and nursing faculty at three
different institutions. After being given brief instructions as to administration of the instrument
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