فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Motivation is one of the key factors in educational achievement. Like any other field of study, motivationin nursing is highly critical. The instructor’s knowledge about the teaching methods that are effectivein academic motivation of students enables them to adopt proper measures to improve the teachingefficiency. The present paper is a systemic review of the efficiency of instructional interventions inimprovement of academic motivation in nursing students. The published papers related to the studyfrom 2000 to February 2020 were searched at different databases such as PubMed, Scopus, Webof Science, PsycInfo, and ERIC. To examine the quality of the articles, critical appraisal instrumentfor reports of educational interventions was used. Totally, 18 articles entered the study for structuredreview. The majority of the articles reported that educational interventions improved academicmotivation in nursing students. The effective teaching methods described in the reviewed articlesthat led to an improvement in academic motivation were simulation, case‑based learning, cooperativelearning, learning contract, peer assessment, and self‑assessment using video typing. As the findingsshowed, implementation of applied and participatory methods in teaching process improved theacademic motivation of nursing students. Therefore, using such methods, nursing instructors canimprove the academic motivation of their students.