to support Professional Training,

Guides and evaluation tools

Evaluating Professional Training: a new paradigm for the annual student survey

Jenny Willis reflects on learning over 4 years of evaluating Surrey's professional training.

A Student, Tutor and Employer Guide to Successful Work Placement (2002)

Providing Work Placements for Disabled Students, a good practice guide for further and higher education institutions (Department of Education and Skills 2002)

Research informing SCEPTrE’s work

Learning to Learn Through Supported Enquiry - useful case studies and papers from the 2 year FDTL5 Project at Surrey

Early Career Learning at Work (LiNEA) Project Methodology and Theoretical Frameworks Stephen Steadman

Learning during the first few years of postgraduate employment – the LiNEA project Michael Eraut

Learning in the first professional job: the first year of fulltime employment after college for accountants, nurses and engineers. Michael Eraut

Early Career Learning at Work – The LiNEA Project Michael Eraut and others

Developing Responsibility Michael Eraut

Challenging Work Fred Maillardet

Learning as Work TLRP3 home page

Workplace Learning: Main Themes & Perspectives Tracey Lee and others (2004)

Applying the Survey Method to Learning at Work: A Recent UK Experience' Alan Felstead, and others (2004) Looks at learning as participation rather than learning through acquisition.

Worlds within Worlds: The Relationship between Context and Pedagogy in the Workplace'  Lorna Unwin and others (2005)

Connecting Culture and Learning in Organisations: A Review of Current Themes Daniel Bishop and others (2006)

Who Learns What at Work? Alison Fuller and others (2005)

Other research

The Assessment of 'wicked' competences

Peter Knight & Anna Page

Issues in the Asessment of Practice-Based Professional Learning Mantz Yorke (2005)

Learning through work placements and beyond Brenda Little and Lee Harvey (2006)

Work Placements and Placement Learning: views of placement tutors and colleagues

involved in the administration of work placements Norman Jackson (2006)

Information strategies and professional identity: a study of nurses' experiences of information at the workplace Olof Sundin (2001)

Towards the development of a work integrated learning unit.

The Professional Placement for Students: some theoretical considerations David L. Uzzell (1986)

A Co-Orientational Analysis of the Professional Placement David Uzzell (1987)

 

Overview papers

Work-based learning: illuminating the higher education landscape Ian Nixon and others 2006

Provisional Map of Approaches to and Support for Work Integrated Learning in UK Higher Education Norman Jackson, Jo Tait and Clare Dowding 2006

Representing and Communicating Students’ Learning and Achievements in Higher Education through Transcripts  Norman Jackson  2005

Useful links

Work Integrated Learning UK website: a portal to relevant resources

The Centre for Excellence in Professional Learning from the Workplace University of Westminster UK

Practice-based Professional Learning Centre (PBPL) Open University UK

List of Centres for Excellence with an interest in professional training, practice-based learning, work placement or work integrated learning.