An internship is essential for the development of competency-based leadership. Variation in the quality of time spent in clinical settings depends on the use of approaches that provide interns with opportunities to observe, participate in, and reflect on the problems of leadership and management found in schools. In essence, the internship is an…

Traditionally, college English departments have resisted granting undergraduate internships a central place in their curricula. Many of these departments do little more than allow students to pursue internships as loosely supervised independent studies. An internship practicum course such as Purdue University's, however, enables students to…

Providing quality principal preparation internship programs at the nation's graduate schools of education has long been a topic of discussion and concern. In 1989, the National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA) cited a decline in the quality of administrator preparation programs. These programs were criticized for being…

The purpose of this paper was to examine the cross-national performance of fourth- and eighth-grade students in mathematics on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003. The TIMSS assessment data were used to identify nations that have a competitive edge in the critical area of mathematics. The Trends in International…

In this article, the author reports the results of a content analysis based on the responses of 345 interns to the request for specific suggestions for how their employer could improve the experience for future interns enrolled in a for-credit business school internship class. The findings suggest that clarity of tasks, communication, and…

An internship and a Junior Communication Seminar help prepare students for gainful employment at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia. The second-semester seminar focuses on job-hunting strategies to help students in the search for the required internship and for future employment. A significant portion of the course is devoted to students' dialogue…

This paper reviews the characteristics of effective internship field experience and programs. The internship serves an important function in preparing educational administrators, as it bridges the gap between classroom practice and professional practice. Although the internship has been an integral component of many administrator preparation…

In spite of the importance of practicums and internships in counselor preparation, counselor educators have available to them little empirical knowledge on the organization and administration of these domains. So as to determine existing practices and to establish baseline information, this article reports on the practicum and internship practices…

This paper describes a student internship program available to students majoring in public relations, radio-television, or organizational communication at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana, through which an average of 10 students per semester (since 1986) have interned at a variety of broadcast and business institutions. The paper…

The purpose of this literature review is to produce a list of essential knowledge and skills for beginning principals. Research on the principalship falls into two distinct categories: prescriptive and descriptive. Prescriptive research emphasizes the perceived or idealized role of the principal as "bold innovator" or "creative…

An experiment is reported which utilized a professional medical care organization as the base for intern and resident education. The major reason for its failure was the rigidity of Medicare regulations. The data suggest the mechanism is feasible and could potentially obviate many problems of hospital-based programs. (Editor/JT)

Kearsley, Michigans' Practical Experience Program (PEP) serves college bound and non-college bound high school students with internships, career seminars, day on the job, part-time work experience with credit, cooperative training education and placement center service. (MW)

This paper examines the literature about speech communication internship programs to determine how much is known about such programs, what approaches are used and/or advocated, and how they are perceived by those who participate in them and those who administer them. The paper reviews the literature within four categories: (1) reports of survey…

A description is given of two Georgia alternative certification institutes and academic year internships for secondary foreign language, mathematics, and science teacher-interns and mentors. One program, the Teacher Recruitment and Internship Project for Success (TRIPS), is an intern-mentor alternative certification program designed to attract…

This study examined the relationships between self-concepts of beginning teachers as measured before and after internship experiences with mentors. The expectations and attitudes of 138 beginning teachers participating in the Indiana Beginning Teacher Internship Program were sought before and after participation. Instruments used in the study were…