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Fortune, Anne E.; Rogers, Crystal A.; Williamson, Estella – Journal of Social Work Education, 2018
Integrative field seminars can help students with the difficult task of integrating learning between field and class. Are the seminars effective? We compared one cohort of MSW students who were required to attend an integrative field seminar (n = 101) with another cohort that was not offered a seminar (n = 147). We questioned each cohort at the…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Education, Masters Programs, Seminars
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Maynard, Sarah P.; Mertz, Linda K. P.; Fortune, Anne E. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2015
The field practicum is the signature pedagogy of the social work profession, yet field directors struggle to find adequate field placements--both in quantity and quality. To accommodate more students with a dwindling pool of practicum sites, creative models of field supervision have emerged. This article considers off-site supervision and its…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Education, Practicums, Practicum Supervision
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Lee, Mingun; Fortune, Anne E. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2013
Field practicum is an active learning process. This study explores the different learning stages or processes students experience during their field practicum. First-year master's of social work students in field practica were asked how much they had engaged in educational learning activities such as observation, working independently, process…
Descriptors: Practicums, Field Experience Programs, Masters Programs, Graduate Students
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Fortune, Anne E.; Rathbone-McCuan, Eloise – Journal of Education for Social Work, 1981
A masters-level social work curriculum integrating gerontological knowledge, clinical knowledge, clinical experience, and aimed at developing a task-centered model for work with the elderly is described and discussed. Questions remain about which adaptations to the model are most effective, but student preparation for this work has improved. (MSE)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Curriculum Design, Gerontology, Higher Education
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Fortune, Anne E.; And Others – Journal of Social Work Education, 1985
Students' perceptions of their field placements rarely are taken into account in the literature on field practicum and supervision. This survey of master's program students at a southern university examines factors associated with student satisfaction with field agency, field instructor, and field learning. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Masters Programs, Participant Satisfaction
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Fortune, Anne E.; McCarthy, Mary; Abramson, Julie S. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2001
Sixty-four master's of social work (MSW) students reported on observational-participatory and conceptual linkage learning activities used in their first- and second-year field placements. Greater use of some activities was associated with student satisfaction and perception of quality but not with field instructors' ratings of student performance.…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Field Experience Programs, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Activities