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Malcarne, Brian Keith – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to gain understanding into the experience of group cohesion for university students participating in an academic field experience. A mixed methods approach was used following a two-phase, sequential research design to help provide a more complete explanation of how group cohesion was impacted by the field experience.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Mixed Methods Research, Field Experience Programs
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Lastrapes, Wanda; Negishi, Meiko – SRATE Journal, 2012
This study examined preservice teachers' cultural consciousness and self-efficacy while tutoring diverse students during an initial urban field experience. The 46 participants, enrolled in an introduction to diversity course, completed an 18-hour tutoring requirement in elementary and secondary schools. Paired-sample t-tests yielded statistically…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary Schools, Self Efficacy, Field Experience Programs
Benton, Sidney E.; Osborn, Janie – Southern Journal of Educational Research, 1979
Describing results of a field-based program for an entry level course in teacher education, this article indicates six of seven teacher education classes made gains (measured via pre- and post-testing with the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory) at the .001 level and one class made gains at the .05 level. (JC)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Pretesting
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Bledsoe, Joseph; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1980
Elementary teacher candidates were pretested and posttested with the Graves Design Judgment Test. Of five approaches to analyzing change, only one, a transformation of posttest divided by pretest expressed in percentage, yielded significance. The hypothesis that a sculpture workshop and field experience would result in greater gains was not…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Attitude Change, Design Preferences, Field Experience Programs
Kemp, Leroy – 1992
This study examined the use of writing as an instructional methodology for enhancing Afro-American preservice teachers' knowledge of and attitudes towards teaching during their year-long field practicum experience. Data are presented relative to the interrelatedness of writing competence and cognitive complexity. Subjects (n=81) included 27…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Structures, College Freshmen, College Juniors
Nolan, J.; Duncan, C.; Hatton, V. – 2000
This study compared the attitudes of preservice physical educators after field experiences in adapted physical education and also compared attitudinal changes between those with such field experiences and those without. Subjects (n=63) all received 8 weeks of adapted physical education classroom instruction. One-third then experienced an 8-week…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities