Ball State University's New Venture Creation is a capstone course in which class sessions simulate workshops for understanding and analyzing business plans. Students present the resulting business proposals to a board of consultants and entrepreneurs, which evaluates them for feasibility. (SK)

An integrative approach to learning outcome assessment in business education uses business input. This capstone problem-solving course is an enriched experience that enables evaluation of skills and abilities in a realistic workplace environment. (SK)

A series of evaluations of total enterprise simulation in business capstone courses found no direct positive relationship between performance in the management game and learning outcomes. Ability to play the game did not correlate to learning. (SK)

A capstone course gives isolated student teachers an opportunity to share ideas, discuss problems, and give one another support. The course covers topics relevant to the student teaching experience and includes the preparation of professional development plans. (JOW)

The scholarship of teaching and learning approach and input of key stakeholders provide a multidimensional framework for evaluating business capstone courses. Steps include identifying standards and practices for benchmarking, identifying faculty perceptions of core knowledge and skills, collecting student feedback, and including the perspectives…

Analysis of 51 of 80 project proposals, the capstone exercise of the Arkansas Certified Government Manager program, showed that nearly half dealt with new technology/services and 65% were implemented. The exercise promotes state agency analysis, discussion, and action regarding the issues or problems addressed by the projects. (SK)

Responses from 193 of 547 master's of business administration programs indicated that capstone courses were 5 times more likely to be used for the integrating experience, and 65% of the time were used alone. Four percent of master's candidates fail the integrating experience. Few programs are moving to theses for the experience. (SK)

Of 85 students in a capstone business course, 65% had used distance methods to earn some credits, and distance participants performed better in the capstone class. In particular, those in learning-contract or college-level examination program classes did better than those in traditional or televised courses. (SK)

An Italian university's capstone business administration course is designed around andragogical principles. Students spend 90% of their time in independent teamwork on multidisciplinary problems. The course uses information technology in the form of databases and networked computers. (SK)

This paper describes a pilot course combining the communication capstone with service learning. It first looks at faculty rationale and expectations for the course, then describes how the course was constructed. It then summarizes the students' expectations for the course. The next section gives the perspective of both the instructor and the…

This paper presents a series of handouts that were developed for a senior seminar capstone course in communication entitled "Leadership and Communication." The paper pinpoints the increasing interest in the areas of "leadership" and "ethics" as areas of study and research in universities, and suggests that these two areas merge in what the current…

Presents methods used by the cooperative education coordinator in working with disadvantaged students enrolled at the Hartford Area Vocational Center (Vermont). Includes (l) identification of potentially disadvantaged students; (2) screening cooperative education employees; (3) student decision making; and (4) student placement interview with the…

Discusses the use of a computer algebra system in a capstone mathematics course for undergraduate mathematics majors preparing to teach secondary school mathematics. Provides sample exercises intended to demonstrate how the power of a computer algebra system such as MAPLE can contribute to desired outcomes including reinforcing and strengthening…

A study looked at four groups of mostly senior graphic and industrial design students in their final semester capstone course--a collaborative studio project intended to give them the opportunity to apply their design expertise to real-world problems for real clients. The study examined the ways in which one of these groups used arguments to…

Colleges across the nation have long been investigating the need for an oral communication component in the graduation requirements. Hence the question: should communication departments in colleges and universities advocate "speaking across the curriculum?" If the objective of education is to graduate people who can discover information…