PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a 3-week practicum experience on the clinical self-confidence of University of North Carolina (UNC) senior dental hygiene students. METHODS A mixed methods approach was utilized. Before and after a 3-week practicum experience, UNC senior dental hygiene students (n=32) were asked to complete a 20-statement clinical self-confiden...

Argyris and Schön distinguish espoused theories those which people speak about – from theory-in-use those which can be inferred from action. In small software teams, developing reflective thinking about action is a vital necessity in coping with change. We address these issues in a Masters of Software Engineering, performed with an alternation between university and industry. University periods...

 In view of the fact that pre-service teachers’ critical reflection through evaluating teaching activity of their peers is an important part of practicum activity, the current study aimed to analyze the recall and reflection journals written by pre-service teachers to identify and evaluate the discoursal features of their journals. To this end, a total of 272 recall and reflection journals writ...

This study examined the reflective journal entries of 42 trainee teachers who underwent teaching practicum in schools in Malaysia. The study investigated the types of reflections, strategies or stance used, and perceptions of the trainees toward reflective journal writing. The findings of the study indicated that the trainee teachers were engaged in Descriptive Reflection (DR), Dialogic Reflect...

Preparing citizens to address the complex problems inherent in cities requires our changing society to embrace a new kind of education. One way to train people to think about complex problems is to identify and study how professionals who think in those ways develop their epistemic frame. In this paper, we examine one of the ways urban planners master and appropriate relevant expertise through ...

The aim of this study is to combine the practice of reflective teaching and technology. With the help of a group created on Facebook which was accessible only to the group members taking part in the reflective teaching process, an interactive discussion environment was created and the student teachers commented on each others’ performances based on the diaries prepared after each practice. Afte...

INTRODUCTION Judgment in the face of uncertainty is an important dimension of expertise and clinical competence. However, it is challenging to conceive continuing professional development (CPD) initiatives aimed at helping physicians enhance their clinical judgment skills in ill-defined situations. We present an online script concordance-based CPD program (the Practicum Script Concordance Test,...

The Developmental Path of Internship Program within the Iranian System of Teacher Training   Gh. Ahmadi, Ph.D.* S. Maleki** M. Mehrmohammadi, Ph.D.*** S.M.R. EmaamJom’eh, Ph.D.****   Theoretically, internship programs can utilize any one of the three known approaches: craft model, applied science model, and reflective model. The purpose of the current paper has been to show the developme...

ITE programmes have long considered practicum in schools as quintessential for teacher learning (Johnson, 1996; Richards, 1998; Derrick and Dicks, 2005; Imig and Imig, 2006; Darling-Hammond, 2006; Liston et al, 2006; Otero, 2006; Furlong et al, 2008; Black and Plowright, 2010; Melville, Bowen and Passmore, 2011). Richards and Crookes (1988) describe practicum as the ‘major opportunity for the s...