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Council on Social Work Education, 2025
The Policy Practice in Field Initiative was created to seed innovation and develop new models for an integrated approach to enhance the policy skill set of all social work students regardless of specialization. Funds provided to the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) are regranted to schools and programs of social work for field placement and…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Models, Field Experience Programs
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Gendle, Mathew H.; Tapler, Amanda – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2022
In this preliminary study, the Global Engagement Survey (GES) was used to assess developmental outcomes in undergraduate students enrolled in a multi-year community-based global learning program. Statistically significant growth was observed on the Civic Efficacy (CE) scale of the GES (p = 0.01). The GES appears to have significant utility in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Outcomes of Education, Global Education, Student Surveys
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Howard, Jeff S.; Flora, Bethany H. – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2015
First year students, like all students at a university, comprise a diverse mixture of personal traits, backgrounds, experiences, and assorted learning styles. Each of these unique student characteristics can either enhance or inhibit successful integration to the campus community. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of various…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, School Holding Power, College Freshmen, First Year Seminars
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McWilliams, Andrew; Rosemond, Cherie; Roberts, Ellen; Calleson, Diane; Busby-Whitehead, Jan – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2008
The University of North Carolina Mobile Student Health Action Coalition (UNC MSHAC) at Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a voluntary service-learning program in which interdisciplinary teams of graduate level health professional students provide monthly home visits to isolated, community-dwelling elders with complex medical and social issues.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Program Evaluation, Home Visits, Learning Experience
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Yancy, Dorothy Cowser; Sutton-Haywood, Marilyn; Hermitte, Eugene; Dawkins, Phyllis Worthy; Rainey, Kelli; Parker, Frank E. – Journal of Negro Education, 2008
Learning communities continue to be at the heart of teaching and learning today. The purpose of this study is to examine the extent of the impact of the Freshman Academy/Learning Community program on student progress at a historically Black university. The authors also looked at the extent to which students engaged in their learning as a result of…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Academic Achievement, Service Learning, Active Learning
Jones, Brett D.; Stallings, D. T.; Malone, David – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2004
With the recent proliferation of college service-learning programs and tutoring programs, college students have more opportunities to serve as tutors in elementary schools than ever before. A number of reports have appeared in the research literature describing tutoring programs that could serve as models for tutoring initiatives. Based on this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Program Effectiveness, Tutors, Elementary School Teachers
Miller, Greg, Ed. – 2000
These proceedings contain 48 presentations and 15 poster abstracts. Papers include "Computer Tasks Required in Selected Undergraduate Agriculture Courses" (Johnson, Ferguson, Vokinnns, Lester); "College of Agriculture Faculty Perceptions of Electronic Technologies in Teaching" (Dooley, Murphy); "Steering Through Turbulent…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Sciences