BACKGROUND Improving and sustaining quality in healthcare continues to be a global challenge, resulting in the necessity of developing quality improvement (QI) skills and knowledge to use in practice. This paper reports student nurses' experiences of conducting a quality improvement project (Practicum) as a compulsory assessment whilst on clinical placement areas across Scotland. METHODS Tele...

This qualitative study aims to understand and explore the experiences of study participants in applying theories during their practicum. A total of seven participants in the study were purposedly selected and they were the eighth semester counseling students undergoing practicum in Kuala Terengganu and Kuantan District. Data collection used the methods of structural interview and analysis of do...

Design and Validation of an Instructional Design Model for Reflection-Based Learning Environments   E. Azimi, Ph.D.* J. Haatami, Ph.D.** H. FarDaanesh, Ph.D.*** O. Noroozi, Ph.D.****   Reflection on teaching is a known method of learning to teach. Reflection is a form of thinking wherein improvement is sought through self-observation. Recent approaches to teaching practicums have gravi...

This study explores the reflective practices of two pre-service English teachers (PSETs) during their school-based teaching practice and internship program at time Covid-19. The purpose this research is to describe PSETs reflections online practicum. data were collected by utilizing participants’ journal writing as part e-portfolio projects which they kept analyzed thematically referring Bain, ...

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...

This research focuses on the formative contributions made by tutor teachers in university to acquisition of pedagogical knowledge based reflective processes that they manage implement, from perspective future professional practice or a practicum. A qualitative method was employed. Twenty practitioners pedagogy programs who developed practicum year 2020 2021 took part this process, matriculated ...