Evaluating Students’ Micro Practice Field Performance

Abstract

The current study represents an effort to determine whether a universally recognized set of objectives for field-based learning in micro-level practice exists despite apparently widespread belief to the contrary among social work educators. A review of efforts over the past 50 years to conceptualize field learning and an analysis of current data on student performance criteria identified eight learning objectives for field study. These objectives reflect both traditional concepts and contemporary demands on the profession. Based on these learning objectives, the authors have proposed a method for evaluating student performance in the field.

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Martha Morrison Dore

The authors express their appreciation to Dean Michael J. Austin and Associate Dean Peter Vaughan for support for the research on which this article is based.