The Effect of Classes through Google Classroom due to COVID-19 on Outcome-Based Nursing Education

This study was conducted to develop and evaluate the impact of education through Google Classroom on outcome-based nursing education such as critical thinking, problem-solving ability, self-regulated learning ability, and academic major satisfaction with the face-to-face instructional closure due to COVID-19.The methodology used in this research is an quasiexperimental study of a group of pretest-posttest design, which was designed to check for differences before and after the intervention through Google Classroom to the treatment group.For a total of six weeks from March 16, 2020, to April 24, 2020, H University, located in J city, has taught eight nursing courses in the first, second, third, and fourth grades through Google Classroom.The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and paired t-test using the SPSS WIN 23.0 program.The effects of education with Google Classroom on critical thinking ability, problem-solving ability, self-regulated ability and academic major satisfaction were statistically significant as follows: critical thinking ability (t =,-3.48 p =).000), self-regulating learning ability (t=-3.35,p=.001), problem-solving ability (t=-3.49,p=.001), and academic major satisfaction (t=-2.81,p=.016).The above findings confirmed that applying Google Classroom to nursing education can have a positive impact on critical thinking, problem-solving ability, and self-regulated learning ability among nursing students, and increase academic major satisfaction.