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Jenny Willis

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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, CRITICAL REFLECTION AND PEER SUPPORT

Making the placement year work for others

 

Year after year, Level 3 returning students testify to the immense value of their professional year, even when they have not been working in an area relevant to their degree or may not have found the job itself ideal.  What is it that makes them feel stimulated and different as a result of their professional experience?  As placements become more difficult to find in many subjects, and the uptake of professional placements is declining world-wide, there is an ever more urgent need to consider these issues and how they impact upon the Level 3 curriculum.

This projects aims to identify the elements of the professional year experience that make it a transformative experience for students, and to explore the reintegration of students into the University for their final undergraduate year. 

Faculty-based focus groups will be followed by individual interviews with Level 3 students returning from placement.  Level P students will be surveyed at the start and mid-way through their placement year.  The project will examine the experiences of these two cohorts of students across disciplines in order to probe the nature of transformation and to identify any disciplinary differences.

 

Best laid plans

 

Update: report completed, 24 April 2009

Here are the fruits of my research.  If you want to read the whole report, the sections are in sequence as numbered.

 

 

14 SCEPTRE FELLOWSHIP ANNEX G Summary of Recommendations.pdf

13 SCEPTRE FELLOWSHIP ANNEX FMSRTutor Report Form 08.pdf

12 SCEPTRE FELLOWSHIP ANNEX E FML employer form.pdf

11 SCEPTRE FELLOWSHIP Annex D STUDENT INTERVIEW.pdf

10 SCEPTRE FELLOWSHIP Annex C STAFF INTERVIEW.pdf

9 SCEPTRE FELLOWSHIP ANNEX B Sample of Qualitative data from student survey.pdf

7 SCEPTrE FELLOWSHIP References.pdf

6 SCEPTRE FELLOWSHIP Conclusion.pdf

5 SCEPTRE FELLOWSHIP Report 4.pdf

4 SCEPTRE FELLOWSHIP Report 3.pdf

3 SCEPTRE FELLOWSHIP Report 2.pdf

2 SCEPTrE FELLOWSHIP Report 1.pdf

1A SCEPTrE FELLOWSHIP Executive Summary 2008.pdf

1 SCEPTRE FELLOWSHIP COVER.pdf

 

 

 

FELLOWSHIP SEMINAR MAY 2009

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Comments (2)

Russ Law said

at 4:57 pm on Jan 14, 2009

Just read your account of 'best laid plans'! Great to hear how you are managing the uncertainty of processes in a positive way, Jenny. Typical complex world scenario...

Jenny Willis said

at 8:43 am on Mar 18, 2009

If you would like to learn how we use the student feedback that I have been processing for the last five years, why not take a look at the interview we recorded in March 2009? Harrison Talbot-Brown, a final year Maths student who was on professional training placement in 2008, interviews me. You can watch this video by going to this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjNO1lfyqME&feature=channel_page

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