Summary of findings

The richness and unpredictability of the learning, which resulted from chance affordances for particular students in particular work-places (the inevitable consequence of travelling in the 'juggernaut of modernity'?), had a significant impact on feelings, actions and relationships for all of the people in that social environment, and therefore for the students' learning and assessment outcomes, and, on occasions, for staff and clients in the placement. Moreover, the study raised some ethical issues: given the variety amongst placements, particularly in terms of the support they have for learning. Some students faced extremely risky situations, and others were not able to bring the 'hothouse' relationships developed over the four weeks to an appropriate, client-centered, conclusion.

My research showed that community placements, in which uncertainty about what is to happen is a constant feature, can leave learners to their own devices, and this often leads to the use of 'survival strategies' - a short-term focus on addressing immediate problems in the journey towards a long-term project, particularly where the learning environment offers few opportunities for setting context-specific goals. Some of the 'survival strategies' may be highly constructive, and go well beyond the expected outcomes of the placement, changing the organization itself. The central issues in this problem-solving approach were the resources that were to hand in dealing with those problems - without a strong formative assessment process, students developed their own strategies as best they could.

اخر الاخبار

اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

أهالي كربلاء يشيعون النعش الرمزي للإمام الحسن (عليه السلام) عند العتبتين المقدستين

العتبة العباسية المقدسة تقيم مجلس عزاء بذكرى شهادة الإمام الحسن (عليه السلام)

قاعة العرض المتحفي في العتبة العباسية المقدسة تشهد إقبالًا واسعًا من الزائرين

خلال لقائه ملاكات مدارس العميد.. سماحة السيّد الصافي يؤكّد أهمّية التعلّم المستمرّ الذي يفتح آفاق الفهم والمعرف

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

تسارع الشيخوخة.. متى يبدأ وأي الأعضاء أكثر تأثرا؟

9 مسببات شائعة للالتهاب المزمن قد تهدد صحتك

باحثون يطورون علاجا لهشاشة العظام.. النتائج مذهلة

تحمي من أمراض عديدة.. 6 فوائد لتناول البطاطا الحلوة

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

عودة التعاون الفضائي بين روسيا وأميركا.. وبحث ملفات "هامة"

المعلمون في خطر.. خاصية جديدة في "تشات جي بي تي" تشرح الدروس

بشرى لمرضى الشلل.. شريحة في الدماغ قد تتيح التحكم بالأدوات

مدينة غارقة.. هل يخفي قاع البحر الكاريبي سرّ حضارة مفقودة؟

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Action learning as a path forward

Implications of the study for enhancing assessment Questions raised by the study

Contributions in the placement

Learning outcomes

Affordances and bricolage

Learning processes Qualitative differences in placement experiences

Results, analysis and discussions

Research methodology

Conceptualizing learning and its assessment in community placements

Ecology, Identity and Assessment: The Implications of a Case Study of Police Students Learning in Community Placements for Assessment

Combining Novel Pedagogic and IT Approaches to Align the Assessment of Workplace Learning with Criteria for Academic Credit Conclusions

Learning Agreement web-form