Evaluation of the DS 190: Practicum Subject by Assessing the Feedback of the Alumni of Development Studies Who Participated, The DS Practicum Alumni Survey

Abstract

This is an undergraduate thesis focusing on the evaluating the practicum as a means of studying the proper synthesis of informal education (off-campus education) with the formal education (schooling) based on the feedback given by the graduates of the Development Studies Program who have taken the Practicum before graduating from the course. This research analyzes the feedback of the respondents concerning their community, their work as students, their person experiences and their feedback on the program itself which includes their recommendation to the course. This is a reading for those who wish to understand and know about the practicum from the viewpoint of the students who have completed it as well as find out how well was the practicum for them. For most of the respondents the Practicum has been given positive review's. For them the difficulty' has not been significantly difficult though the unfamiliarity has caused varied difficulty for others. The most common recommendation that the students wish was for the Practicum to be more varied as well as provide the student more choosing power as w ell as include the opportunity to work in a company in the form of an OJT. Still for the better part, most of the respondents have become more pro-masses, pro-poor and pro-justice and live this out in their professional lives wherever they may be.