Recently, the educational method of PBL tutorial education program has begun to be implemented in nursing curriculum. In the field of Pediatric Nursing, it has been practiced for the past two years. PBL education tutorial program is effective for heuristic education whereby the learners take initiative in their study and develop their own problem-solving methods. Besides independent learning skills, it is said that PBL is effective for promoting critical thinking and communicative skills. In the first year, the effects of learning were qualitatively evaluated by analyzing students' reports. The results showed that some students acquired knowledge and skills relevant to the learning objectives and some did not, and it was uncertain whether the case study had any motivational role in promoting the learning process. After the second year, the present research performed quantitative evaluation by means of SBOs and ARCS motivation model. The results suggested that although the case study was fascinating and motivating, it was insufficient to promote confidence and satisfaction of the students. With reference to SBOs, it was revealed that studies in regard to examination and complication were insufficient. Observation and complication were observed to have a significant correlation with an ARCS category - namely confidence - and this indicated that accomplishment of these study objectives had positive influence on confidence.
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