Assessing the Development of Civic Mindedness in a Cohort of Physical Therapy Students

Autor/inn/en	Palombaro, Kerstin M.; Black, Jill D.; Dole, Robin L.; Pierce, Jessica L.; Santiago, Marisa R.; Sabara, Edward J.
Titel	Assessing the Development of Civic Mindedness in a Cohort of Physical Therapy Students
Quelle	In: Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 17 (2017) 4, S.31-43 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1527-9316
Schlagwörter	Citizenship Education; Physical Therapy; Graduate Students; Service Learning; Likert Scales; Pretests Posttests; Statistical Analysis; Program Effectiveness; Leadership; Student Surveys; Altruism; Accountability; Caring; Success; Social Responsibility; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Physiotherapie; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Service-Learning; Likert-Skala; Statistische Analyse; Führung; Führungsposition; Schülerbefragung; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Verantwortung; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Erfolg; Soziale Verantwortung
Abstract	Introduction and Background: Colleges and universities have an obligation to educate graduate students who demonstrate civic literacy and who can engage in civic inquiry and action. Service-learning and community engagement courses are highly effective in developing civic-mindedness. Graduate professional programs may have additional reasons for focusing on development of civic mindedness. The purpose of this paper is 1) to measure the development of civic-mindedness increased in a cohort of physical therapy students exposed to a variety of civic engagement programs and service-learning courses and 2) to determine if there is a difference in civic-mindedness between students serving on a pro bono clinic Student Board and their classmates in a graduate physical therapy program. Methods: The Civic-Minded Professional Scale (CMP) is a 23-item, 7-point Likert-scale survey designed to measure the domains of self-identity; work, career and profession; and civic attitudes, civic action, and public purpose to measure the construct of civic-mindedness. The CMP was administered to a cohort of graduate physical therapy students at the beginning of the professional curriculum and at the end of each of three years of didactic coursework. Results: Friedman's repeated measures ANOVA with post hoc testing revealed that civic mindedness increased in our students throughout the course of the graduate physical therapy curriculum. Analysis also supports a difference on civic mindedness between those that participated in leadership of a pro bono clinic compared with students who did not. Discussion and Conclusion: Students involved in service-learning coursework imbedded throughout a graduate physical therapy program had increases in civic-mindedness. Service-learning coursework may be an effective way to develop civic mindedness in graduate students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01