Field learning experiences reach tens of thousands of undergraduate students annually, constituting their importance as components of undergraduate education and potential pathways for STEM education. Reports and planning efforts by national entities have highlighted the need to ground undergraduate field learning experiences in evidence-based…

Based on William Morris Davis' great Transcontinental Excursion of 1912, this article assesses and reviews the Geography by Rail® program (GbR)--a unique, short-term, field-based study abroad experience that takes an uncommon-in-the-US approach to international exploration and fieldwork, incorporating on-the-ground, regional geography-based…

This paper introduces and details an innovative mode of fieldcourse assessment in which students take on the role of tour guides to offer their lecturer and peers a themed, theoretically informed journey through the urban landscape of Havana, Cuba. Informed by notions of student-centered learning and mobile methods, the tour offers an enjoyable,…

The Academy for Educational Development (AED) sent a research team to the University of Dayton (UD) on November 5-7, 2008, to conduct interviews with individuals who played significant roles in the university's teacher preparation program (see Appendix A). These interviews, along with additional materials provided by UD and identified by the AED…

Findings of this study indicate a high positive evaluation by participants of the Great Lakes Colleges Association--Philadelphia Urban Semester program, designed to help students understand the city, develop self-understanding, and to learn about a field of work related to occupational goals. (MB)

This paper describes a program featuring integrated course sequences and continuous teaching experience that prepares teachers who can create a variety of learning environments that provide meaningful movement experiences for grades K-12,. The 2-year program sequence includes the following elements: (a) selective admissions and retention…

Agencies which accept a responsibility for sharing in the training process need to be prepared to make the necessary adjustments to their programing and internal organization, but above all, they need to prepare themselves effectively for adequate placement evaluation. (CT)

Results of an extensive internship evaluation project in Minnesota have produced four primary outgrowths designed to upgrade the quality of internship experience. They include quantitative changes in standards, pre- and post-tests, interviews as evaluation aids, and an Externship Demonstration Project. (LBH)

Preliminary evaluations of the University of Florida's pharmacy practicum-internship program cover: (1) the interns' subjective evaluations of their experiences; (2) the preceptor's subjective evaluation of interns' performance over two years; and (3) objective measurements of student competencies. (LBH)

A survey of students at three stages in the preservice education curriculum at Shippensburg State College is analyzed to measure the impact of a prestudent teaching field experience offered in conjunction with an introductory educational psychology course. (JMF)

Sandwich courses' survival depends on devising a procedure to assess industrial training meaningfully. The author proposes a list of specific procedures in such an assessment, including regular student inverviews with an assessment panel consisting of both his academic and industrial teachers. (Author/JB)

An electrical engineering program in which a field experience component is used both to enhance training and to evaluate the program's outcomes is described. The curriculum development process is highlighted. (MSE)

In a study with 13 social work and counseling interns, field supervisors' ratings of students' field performance were compared to an independent judge's content analysis of performance. Results revealed significant correlations between the evaluations, providing evidence of validity of the supervisors' assessments. Validity may have been enhanced…

This study compares the relative performance of Central Washington University student teachers who chose to participate in extended field experiences with that of student teachers who preferred the regular course of study, which featured fewer and later field experiences. The regular course, Option A, was a campus-centered program which included…

The required first-year clerkship in family and community medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School is discussed. The goals and objectives and the teaching methods used to implement the program are described. It is suggested that community medicine clerkships belong in the first year of the curriculum. (Author/MLW)