Bringing the field into the criminal justice classroom: Field trips, ride-alongs, and guest speakers

Payne, Brian K.; Sumter, Melvina; Sun, Ivan Y.

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“…This research confirms some of the merits of inviting industry professionals to the classroom as reported above and elsewhere (see for example Mullins, 2001;Ormrod, 2004;Payne, Sumter, & Sun, 2003). It also adds to existing literature in at least three aspects.…”

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A Framework towards Assessing the Merits of Inviting IT Professionals to the Classroom

Kamoun

Selim²

2007

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Executive SummaryFor the past years, the academic IT profession through various professional society curriculum committees and accreditation bodies has made considerable progress to revise and update IT curricula to meet the changing needs of the profession. In particular, learning techniques, beyond classroom teaching activities, have been recognized as essential ingredients to enhance the learning outcomes of advanced-level IT courses. This study outlines an assessment framework to explore the merits of inviting IT professionals as a pedagogical technique to integrate real world IT experience into the classroom. Though the general merits of inviting guest speakers have been confirmed in many previous (non-IT related) studies, these events are particularly much needed in the IT field. This urgency is justified by many factors such as the complex and constantly changing IT profession and its environment, the rapid pace in the rollout/phase-out of IT technologies and terminologies, and the shallow focus on professional orientation in most IT curricula. Our study confirms some of the merits of inviting guest speakers as reported in the literature. It also adds to existing literature in at least three aspects. First, to our best knowledge, this is the first reported study that reflects upon the usage of guest speakers in IT classrooms. Second, our research is a first initiative that contributes to establishing a formal framework for the planning and the assessment of guest speaker events. Such an assessment framework will be very useful for continuous improvement to ensure that students will not feel cheated that three hours of classtime lecturing and discussions were devoted to a less worthwhile guest speaker talk. Third, compared to previous studies, the experience reported in this article is unique in the sense that it is formally and strategically planned, conducted on a large (university-wide) scale and scheduled during a particular week near the end of each semester. Based on the proposed assessment framework and research methodology, this research makes use of multiple sources of evidence to assess the merits of guest speaker events.The data collected indicate that the event helps remedy the lack of exposure of information technology students to the IT professional environment. The event can also provide students with invaluable real-world and practical IT knowledge. Such knowledge can either relate to a particular topic already covered by the course, or it can bring new practical perspectives which are not covered by the course syllabus. These perspectives, along with the guest speaker recommendations, can be fed-back into the IT courses to enrich their content and/or scope. Such feedback is more important than ever given the rapidly evolving nature of the IT environment. This study Material published as part of this publication, either on-line or in print, is copyrighted by the Informing Science Institute. Permission to make digital or paper copy of part or all of these works for personal or classroom use ...

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A Framework towards Assessing the Merits of Inviting IT Professionals to the Classroom

Kamoun

Selim²

2007

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“…University lecturers are seen as appropriate and valued tools that provide essential knowledge to students (Payne, 2003). students recognize theory as an opposite of reality because they may not predict how theory can be engrained into reality.…”

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“…snyder (2003) concludes that guest speakers motivate students and encourage their participation in classrooms. Finally, Payne (2003) states that "guest speakers are an effective means to bring the world into the classroom only when company visits cannot be used" (pp.327). Payne (2003) therefore highlights the importance of guest speakers but suggests that they are only a second option after industry and company visits.…”

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“…Finally, Payne (2003) states that "guest speakers are an effective means to bring the world into the classroom only when company visits cannot be used" (pp.327). Payne (2003) therefore highlights the importance of guest speakers but suggests that they are only a second option after industry and company visits. Thus, Payne implies that students desire the "real" field experience from company representatives more than guest speakers.…”

Section: Guest Speakers In Higher Educationmentioning

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“…Immense literature and various authors stress the importance of guest speakers in higher education (song, 2010;Rowe, 2004;snyder, 2003;Payne, 2003;Kumari, 2001) and none oppose it or suggest otherwise. Mullins (2001) argues that despite guest speakers having their disadvantages, such as finding it hard to organise guest speakers and they might be costly, guest speaker deliver realistic information based on field experience to students.…”

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Bringing the field into the criminal justice classroom: Field trips, ride-alongs, and guest speakers

Cited by 62 publications

References 11 publications

A Framework towards Assessing the Merits of Inviting IT Professionals to the Classroom

A Framework towards Assessing the Merits of Inviting IT Professionals to the Classroom

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