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Matt Moore; Judith Gray; Dusty Rademacher; Mastano Nambiro Woleson Dzimbiri; Payton Bennett – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
This study explored the impact of community service-learning (CSL) on the educational development of undergraduate social work students related to professional competencies. Undergraduate student participants (n = 155) completed a required volunteer CSL experience in social work practice courses during both their sophomore and junior years. The…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Volunteer Training, Student Volunteers, Social Work
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Berce, Carmen Alina; Laurian-Fitzgerald, Simona; Fitzgerald, Carlton J. – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2023
During the 2022 and 2023 school year, a group of eight college professors, 67 university education students, 27 primary school teachers and principals, and 200 primary school students participated together in a project titled, The Caravan of Friendship and Games. During the year, students suggested that they should also work with the elderly.…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, Extracurricular Activities, Older Adults, Educational Benefits
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Paul Joseph-Richard; Kieran M. Conroy – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Self-initiated international placements by students have been largely ignored in the literature on outward mobility in higher education. The support given to self-initiated international placement students, if any, has received even less attention. This study aims to address this lacuna. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on insights…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Foreign Students, Student Placement, Student Mobility
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Wilson, Jay R.; Yates, Thomas T.; Purton, Kendra – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
A pilot study was conducted to explore student preferences, performance, and perceptions of experiential learning assessment following experiential learning instruction. A learning experience, using semi-directed instruction and experiential learning methods, was given to 13 student volunteers who were then assessed using a case study,…
Descriptors: Preferences, Experiential Learning, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries
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Eng, Edward; Febria, Catherine – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2011
Students seek unique experiences to obtain and enhance professional development skills and to prepare for future careers. Through the Let's Talk Science Partnership Program (LTSPP), a voluntary science outreach program at University of Toronto Scarborough, students are given the opportunity to continually improve on skills which include: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outreach Programs, Skill Development, College Students
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Socha, Alan; Sigler, Ellen A. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
The "Revised Learning Process Questionnaire" has been part of the development of a conceptual understanding of how students learn and what motivates them to engage in particular tasks. We obtained responses from 329 student volunteers at a mid-sized public university in the southeast USA. We first investigated whether the psychometric…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Questionnaires, Multidimensional Scaling, Psychometrics