The purposes of this study were to develop and test the
efficiency of Computer Assisted Instruction to support 
studying on anatomy and physiology 1 for the First-Year
Nursing  Students, to compare the learning achievement
between nursing students who study with Computer Assisted 
Instruction  and nursing students who study with traditional
Instruction, and to survey the students' attitude toward the
Computer Assisted Instruction. The subjects consisted of 60 
First-year Nursing Students Faculty of Nursing, at the Christian 
University, enrolling in Anatomy and Physiology of Skeletal Muscular 
System, during the second semester of the acedemic year 2001.
By using a sample random sampling, the subjects were selected
by ability group to be the control and experimental group. There
were 30 students in the experimental group and 30 students in 
the control group. The experimental grop was taught by a
Computer Assisted Instruction; whereas the control group was
taught by a traditional Instruction.     
        
The instruments used for gathering data were; 
1) two types of instruction on anatomy and physiology 
of skeletal Muscular System : a Computer Assisted Instruction 
and a traditional Instruction for the First-Year Nursing  Students
developed by the researcher;  

2) an achievement test was focused on Physiology of skeletal 
Muscular System was used as a pretest and posttest; 

3) a questionnaire was used for surveying the subjects' attitude 
on the effectiveness of the Computer Assisted Instruction.
The analysis of  the t-test was used to analyze the data in
order to measure the subjects'learning achievement before
and after using the Computer Assisted Instruction. The
mean and standard deviation of the questionnaire
scores were used to survey the students' attitude toward the 
Computer Assisted Instruction.

The findings revealed that :

1.The effectiveness of the Computer Assisted Instruction was  
90.17 and 90.12 percent  for the formative test and posttest,
respectively. This means that the efficiency of the Computer
Assisted Instruction was good (higher than the 90 / 90 criterion).

2.The students' learning achievement after using Computer 
Assisted Instruction was significantly higher at the .05 level.

3.The students' attitude toward the Computer Assisted 
Instruction were highly positive.