This report presents the results of the first two stages of the Queensland Board of Teacher Education's investigation of school experience in preservice teacher education programs in Queensland, Australia. Part I reports on the first phase of the study involving a survey of student teachers, supervising teachers, school coordinators of practice teaching, and teacher education lecturers. Sections address: background information on survey subjects; types of school experiences; activities undertaken in school experiences; school experience settings; roles of supervising teachers, lecturers, and school coordinators; relationship between college or university studies and school experience; provision of information to supervising teachers; assessment of student teachers; participation by school personnel and lecturers in activities designed to plan and coordinate school experience; other aspects of school experiences; and desirable changes to school experiences to make them more meaningful in teacher preparation. Part II reports on the second stage of the study involving a number of seminars throughout Queensland at which the survey results for individual programs were discussed. (CB)