The Georgetown University Consortium Project: A Report at the Halfway Mark

Autor/inn/en	Vande Berg, Michael J.; Balkcum, Al; Scheid, Mark; Whalen, Brian J.
Titel	The Georgetown University Consortium Project: A Report at the Halfway Mark
Quelle	In: Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 10 (2004), S.101-116 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1085-4568
Schlagwörter	College Students; International Education; Consortia; Study Abroad; Second Language Learning; Universities; Grants; Educational Research; Program Evaluation; Oral Language; Cultural Awareness; Engineering Education; Business Administration Education; Interviews; Institutional Cooperation; Program Improvement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Internationale Erziehung; Vereinigung; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Zweitsprachenerwerb; University; Universität; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Ingenieurausbildung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Institute; Co-operation; Cooperation; Institut; Kooperation
Abstract	In this article, the authors describe the Georgetown University Consortium Project (GCP), a three-year assessment study designed to document the learning abroad of students from Georgetown University, The University of Minnesota, Rice University, and Dickinson College. Funded by two Department of Education Title VI grants, this ongoing three-year study seeks evidence of student learning at fifty programs abroad, many of them organized by the four consortial institutions, and others by study abroad providers, including programs operated by the Council on International Education, the International Institute for the Education of Students, and the American University Center of Provence. The study seeks evidence of student learning from, and across, three learning domains: oral second-language acquisition, gains in intercultural sensitivity, and learning within four broad disciplinary contexts. The study, through its development of an interview guide that asks returned students to respond to three hypothetical scenarios, also seeks to provide evidence of learning, beyond oral language acquisition and gains in intercultural sensitivity, that will appeal to faculty from three broad disciplinary areas whose students have traditionally been under-represented in study abroad: (1) business; (2) engineering; and (3) the sciences. This report was written at the half-way mark of the study--a year and a half into it--and presents evaluative reflections on the progress and process of the GCP to date. (Contains 7 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10