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Developing Self-Confidence: Students’ Perceptions of Post-practicum Project Teamwork

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This chapter applies an evaluation research framework to investigate a modest number of business students’ perceptions when completing a post-practicum teamwork assessment task, which was linked to three interventions for improving professional experience. The study focused on better understanding how post-practicum teamwork learning experiences that integrate interventions might be best aligned to support professional learning. The study took place at a large Australian University where a credit elective unit of study was offered to undergraduate students via a university-wide Industry or Community Project that was part of a Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) Program. The results of the investigation illuminate on the challenges that students encountered when preparing for and undertaking a post-practicum teamwork experience. We provide some considerations and several curriculum improvement strategies for better crafting post-practicum teamwork interventions for improving professional teamwork learning.

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    Please contact the first named author for a copy of the pre- and post-survey questions: rachael.hains-wesson@sydney.edu.au

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    Rachael Hains-Wesson & Kaiying Ji

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  2. College of Education, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Janice Orrell

  3. School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia

    Denise Jackson

  4. Service Learning Unit, Learning Futures, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia

    Faith Valencia-Forrester

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Hains-Wesson, R., Ji, K. (2020). Developing Self-Confidence: Students’ Perceptions of Post-practicum Project Teamwork. In: Billett, S., Orrell, J., Jackson, D., Valencia-Forrester, F. (eds) Enriching Higher Education Students' Learning through Post-work Placement Interventions. Professional and Practice-based Learning, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48062-2_9

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