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Kirzner, Rachel Shapiro; Alter, Theodore; Hughes, Caleigh A. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2021
Social work students are required to take research methods courses because research-informed practice and practice-informed research are essential to professional practice. However, these students are often reluctant to take a research course and can be difficult to engage in the classroom. We used a mixed methods survey-based design to evaluate…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Race, Ethnicity
Perkins, Nathan H.; Grossman, Susan F.; Kim, Jane – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2020
Based on CSWE's 2015 EPAS, students in MSW programs are expected to have knowledge of research methods. However, an understanding of how students perceive these courses as they pertain to their future careers as social work practitioners is less known. This qualitative study examined what MSW students learned about themselves as a result of taking…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students
Wahler, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2019
A long-standing disconnect between social work practice and research exists that begins with our current education model. When taught separately, students often think they are distinctly different areas of social work that do not have to coexist. This conceptualization of research and practice as separate could contribute to the dearth of research…
Descriptors: Social Work, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Anxiety
Davis, Ashley; Livingstone, Allyson – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2016
Across-racial group of social work doctoral students engaged in an Anti-Racism Project. Through shared journaling and group discussions, participants explored and interrogated experiences of racism related to doctoral education. A thematic analysis of qualitative data surfaced several themes: experiences with racism as a doctoral student, noticing…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Racial Bias, Social Work
Natland, Sidsel; Weissinger, Erika; Graaf, Genevieve; Carnochan, Sarah – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2016
The literature on teaching research methods to social work students identifies many challenges, such as dealing with the tensions related to producing research relevant to practice, access to data to teach practice-based research, and limited student interest in learning research methods. This is an exploratory study of the learning experiences of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Graduate Students, Counselor Training, Learning Experience
Aguirre, Regina T. P.; Duncan, Chad – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2013
Hybrid and online courses and advances in assistive technologies make accommodating students with disabilities ever-changing, requiring innovation. This reality, coupled with students' reluctance to disclose disabilities, points toward a need for replacing accommodations directed at those with disabilities with universal design whereby they…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Online Courses, Assistive Technology, Disabilities
Buchanan, Rachel L.; Mathews, Deborah A. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2013
The trend toward the use of distance education in teaching social work students has been rapidly growing over the past two decades. A constant issue of concern is related to student outcomes. This paper reports on a longitudinal quasi-experimental study assessing the differential knowledge and attitude toward research between social work students…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Conventional Instruction, Distance Education
Nicotera, Nicole; Walls, N. Eugene – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2010
The required research courses in social work education are, perhaps, one of the more difficult content areas in which to infuse direct teaching and knowledge acquisition of multiculturalism. The study presented in this article examines the outcomes of systematically addressing social justice within a required master's level social work research…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Research Methodology, Cultural Pluralism, Social Work
Lundahl, Brad W. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2008
To complement traditional learning activities in a masters-level research methodology course, social work students worked on a formal research project which involved: designing the study, constructing measures, selecting a sampling strategy, collecting data, reducing and analyzing data, and finally interpreting and communicating the results. The…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Research Projects, Research Methodology, Learning Strategies
Davis, Sarita; Coleman, Sylvia Shavon – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2007
The purpose of this study is to improve educators' feedback mechanisms in ways that will reduce student anxiety. The relationship between graduate student anxiety levels, instructor feedback, and the effects of the use of red or green ink as instruments of feedback is examined. The sample (N = 52) comprised first year full-time and part-time MSW…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Behavior Theories, Graduate Students
Stark, Roland B.; Cohen, Betty Eckhaus – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2007
Evidence conflicts as to whether students of social work hold positive attitudes toward the importance and usefulness of social work research. For this study, WebCT[TM] sites were developed to supplement a graduate course on research methods. Students were surveyed to measure the extent to which their attitudes toward research changed over the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Research Methodology, Social Work, Web Sites
O'Connor, Deborah L.; O'Neill, Brian J. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2004
Social work is committed to promoting social justice, inclusion and the empowerment of people. Qualitative research methods offer exciting possibilities for operationalizing this commitment. Drawing predominantly on constructivist and/or critical paradigms for understanding, qualitative research fosters a rebalancing of power within the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Feedback (Response), Constructivism (Learning), Qualitative Research