1 Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Program to Orient Social Work Students toward Their Fieldwork

Abstract: In response to the pressing need of the social work profession for highly qualified and competent social work graduates to join the work, the social work program of the City University offered a 14-week orientation module, consisting of a two-hour lecture each two weeks, to pre-fieldwork students in the first semester of 1997-1998. The captioned study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the orientation module for helping students to achieve good performance in fieldwork. Its core hypothesis is that the attendance at the orientation module promotes the students use of appropriate learning styles and adjustment to fieldwork placement which raise fieldwork performance as a result. The hypothesis receives support from the results