The reported study focuses on pre-service teachers’ professional development during the teaching practice. The cohort studied comprised participants in their final year in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science with Graduate Certificate in Education programmes of a university in Fiji. Analysis of the data obtained using a survey questionnaire indicates that overall, the pre-service teache...

The practicum is regarded as an important component of teacher education programs. There are many variables inherent in the learning environment of the practicum. The study focussed on the learning environment of an extended practicum of a teacher education course at a Catholic university. The paper outlines the development of an instrument designed to explore the perceptions of different membe...

BACKGROUND Since their creation more than 20 years ago, the proliferation of Quick Response (QR) codes has expanded tremendously. Little was found in the literature to support the innovative use of QR coding in the classroom or in health care provision. Thus, the authors created a doctoral-level practicum experience using QR coding to create interactive, individualized patient or provider resou...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to explore and understand the experiences of nursing students related to psychiatric simulation using standardized patients and to identify the value of such simulations in relation to the psychiatric clinical practicum. METHODS This study was designed using qualitative research. Eleven undergraduate students were individually interviewed regarding their exper...

Many conventional science courses contain subjects embedded with laboratory-based activities. However, research on the benefits of positioning the practicals within the theory subject or developing them distinctly from the theory is largely absent. This report compared results in a physiology theory subject among three different cohorts of students: those taking the theory subject alone, those ...

Schuijers JA, McDonald SJ, Julien BL, Lexis LA, Thomas CJ, Chan S, Samiric T. The effectiveness of separating theory and practicum as a conduit to learning physiology. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 153–156, 2013; doi:10.1152/advan.00161.2012.—Many conventional science courses contain subjects embedded with laboratory-based activities. However, research on the benefits of positioning the practicals withi...

BACKGROUND Since 2000, the Centre for Online Health (COH) at The University of Queensland has offered a range of online eHealth courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. While online learning has a number of advantages, in some domains, it can present some challenges to the development of practical skills and experience. OBJECTIVE To assess students' perceptions of the value of an ...

Practicum is a significant component of teacher education which links theory to practice and prepares student teachers for their job. The purpose of the courses, as defined within the Curriculum of Teacher Education at Farhangian University, is to prepare student teachers for their teaching career by observing and analyzing the real situation at schools and relating it to their theoretical ...

In order to better prepare computer science graduates to perform proficiently in industry, the Team-Oriented Software Practicum emulates the actual functioning of a software development company called powerPen. This four-year Practicum works in conjunction with existing computer science curricula, but supplements it with a practical work environment where students experience the entire software...