Teaching Students to Perform Child Welfare Assessments with Adaptable Computer-Supported Scripts and Metacognitive Reflection Prompts.
Assessing cases of child welfare requires the ability to engage with different sources of information systematically. This study examined how case-based learning (CBL) can be used to support social work students (N = 104) acquire knowledge crucial to assessing cases of child welfare and whether bene...
| Published in: | Journal of Social Work Education Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 360 - 376 |
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Summer2024
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