Enhancing students’ preparation for the professional field: A quasi-experimental study on a new community service learning module for first year pedagogical sciences students
Título: Enhancing students’ preparation for the professional field: A quasi-experimental study on a new community service learning module for first year pedagogical sciences students
Autor: Vreeke, Leonie; Huijding, Jorg; Branje, Susan; Hibbel, Belinda; Van der Ham, Jaap; Dielwart, Isabelle; Mulder, Hanna
Resumen: [EN] In this paper, we describe the implementation of a new teaching module in
the first year of a Pedagogical Sciences programme based on Problem Based
Learning, Community Service Learning and co-creation principles. In this
module, first year students answered a real-life pedagogical question for a
project partner from a professional organization. Students ‘co-created’
solutions for the pedagogical-themed question by working together with a
university expert and a project partner from a professional organization.
Results indicated that students involved in this new teaching module scored
significantly higher on a range of self-reported outcomes: feelings of being
challenged, being able to link science to practice, feeling prepared for the
professional field in general, and intrinsic motivation. Significant positive
results occurred specifically when levels of co-creation were relatively high.
This study underscores the importance of involving societal partners and
challenging students to work on real-life problems very early on in academic
education, that is, already in their first year at university