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Integrating Professional Development across the Curriculum: An Effectiveness Study
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Ciarocco, Natalie J.; Dinella, Lisa M.; Hatchard, Christine J.; Valosin, Jayde – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
The current study empirically tested the effectiveness of a modular approach to integrating professional development across an undergraduate psychology curriculum. Researchers conducted a two-group, between-subjects experiment on 269 undergraduate psychology students assessing perceptions of professional preparedness and learning. Analysis…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Program Effectiveness, Undergraduate Students, Psychology
Professional Development Portfolio: Perceptions of Nutrition and Dietetics Current Students and Recent Graduates
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Vouchilas, Gus; George, Gretchen – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2016
The Professional Development Portfolio (PDP) in family and consumer sciences nutrition and dietetics programs is a tool that can help students in their transition to professionals. Significant issues in the portfolio development process are: content selection, decision to create paper or online formatting, determination of proper timing to begin…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Portfolios (Background Materials), Nutrition Instruction, Dietetics
Communication and Instruction in an Online Graduate Education Course
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Fernandez, Maria L. – Teaching Education, 2007
Computer-mediated distance education holds potential for providing professional development opportunities for teachers. This study investigated teaching and learning through written asynchronous and synchronous communications in an online graduate education course. Types of student participation during four weeks of discussions in the course, two…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Student Attitudes, Distance Education, Student Participation
Establishing Experiences to Develop a Wisdom of Professional Practice
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Walker, Joan M. T.; Brophy, Sean P.; Hodge, Lynn Liao; Bransford, John D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2006
This study evaluated students' perceptions of two types of instructional materials focused on engineering professionalism: a passage of advice about professionalism and the same passage with a video enacting the advice. The role of experience in learning about professionalism is discussed, with particular emphasis on how educational materials…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Instructional Material Evaluation, Intermode Differences, Undergraduate Students
Extending Graduate Level Education: A Management Model.
Hales, Robert L.; Felt, Stephen B. – 1986
A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of audiotape cassette technology in delivering professional, graduate-level distance education programs to adult audiences, and to compare this method with traditional classroom instruction. Specific elements of student-teacher rapport, pacing, and attitudes towards the audiotaped course were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiotape Cassettes, Audiotape Recordings, Autoinstructional Aids
Delivery System Preferences of Nontraditional Learners.
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Hodes, Carol L. – 1993
Developers of distance education courses need to determine the best and most efficient delivery systems. Traditional print-based correspondence courses are thought to prevail in the technological age because of inertia of administrators and instructions, but it is important to know the preferences of the adult learners who are the usual…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Bachelors Degrees, College Students, Computer Anxiety