Quality Control in Field Education

The Council on Social Work Education's Curriculum Policy statement mandates educationally directed, coordinated, and monitored field education experience for all students. A National survey of field education directors and coordinators found that faculties use a variety of methods, tools, and procedures to monitor students' performance in field education. The study conclusions point to the need for BSW and MSW programs to give greater priority to the monitoring function, to the field liason role, to closer collaboration with agency partners in this central part of the curriculum, and to research concerning quality control in the field education.