The attitudes of nurse tutor students to behavioural objectives: results and discussion

This small‐scale empirical study provides evidence of the attitudes of a group of nurse tutor students to behavioural objectives. The questionnaire items used ranged from questions about behaviourism and the use of behavioural objectives in teaching, to a question on whether the participants would use behavioural objectives in their teaching once they had finished their course. It emerged that while there was not an uncritical acceptance of behavioural objectives, they were seen as having a place in the process of teaching and learning nursing.