Closing the loop 2005

Desired Outcome:

Students who engage in community internships must be capable of writing with sufficient proficiency to accomplish the work of professionals in the social services field.

Data Collection:

Interviews from the independent field supervisor that queried the writing skills of their intern.

Interpretation of the Data:

• Four of five student interns were reported to be proficient, professional writers.
• One intern was reported to write well enough for the internship but perhaps not well enough to be achieve proficiency as a professional.

Changes to implement:

• Collect more data from the spring interns to discern patterns in writing ability.
• Work with intern who revealed weakness to improve writing proficiency.