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The Importance of Feedback in Preparing Social Work Students for Field Education
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In this paper, the authors examined the role of feedback in student learning using a simulation-based learning activity aimed at developing holistic competence in the classroom to prepare students for field learning and identified four themes that described the impact of feedback on student learning: feedback enhanced knowledge, feedback improved skills, feedback developed professional judgment, and feedback increased self-reflection.Abstract:
Feedback is an important mechanism that enhances student learning in supervision and field education. Constructive feedback that is specific, timely, and based on observations; bridges theory and practice, enhances self-awareness, and builds holistic competence in social work students. There is scant social work research examining how this teaching mechanism facilitates student learning. In this qualitative study we examined the role of feedback in student learning using a simulation-based learning activity aimed at developing holistic competence in the classroom to prepare students for field learning. The study examined the impact of feedback on student learning and the key elements that facilitated learning related to feedback. We identified four themes that described the impact of feedback on student learning: (1) feedback enhanced knowledge, (2) feedback improved skills, (3) feedback developed professional judgment, and (4) feedback increased self-reflection. The processes influencing the impact of feedback were the source of the feedback, type of feedback given, and delivery of feedback. The results deepen our understanding of feedback as a learning mechanism with implications for field education.read more
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Faculty Respond to COVID-19: Reflections-on-Action in Field Education.
TL;DR: The authors reflectively examines the steps taken by the field faculty and department of one large school of social work to address the impact of the pandemic on field education and its placement process.
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What tools facilitate learning on placement? Findings of a social work student-to-student research study
Elaine Wilson,Niamh Flanagan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the experiences of students who have completed a social work placement are analyzed, examining their experiences with the social work fieldwork placements, and identifying common themes among the placements.
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Observational learning in simulation-based social work education: comparison of interviewers and observers
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Cognitive and affective processes: MSW students’ awareness and coping through simulated interviews
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Transformative Learning in Field Education: Students Bridging the Theory/Practice Gap
Beth Archer-Kuhn,Patricia L. Samson,Thecla Damianakis,Betty Jo Barrett,Sumaiya Matin,Christine Ahern +5 more
TL;DR: In a four-year, four cohort study utilizing a series of six focus groups, forty Masters of Social Work students preparing to graduate defined their personal and professional experiences of transformation in their respective social work field education settings as mentioned in this paper.
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