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MSW Capstone Leadership Projects: The Capstone Leadership Project provides opportunities for MSW students to demonstrate advanced social work competencies, to practice leadership at their field placement sites, and enhance self-awareness of individual leadership styles and skills. The Capstone project requires students, in conjunction with their field instructors to: utilize best practices to identify an existing need at the field site; create a sustainable Capstone project; assume significant leadership; engage in self-assessment and self-reflection; utilize best practices to evaluate intended outcomes of the selected intervention; and provide the organization with deliverables.
BSW Research Projects: The BSW research posters are the culmination of students' year-long research projects tied to their field internships. Over the course of the research class, students formulate a viable research question, review the literature, collect data from their field internship sites, conduct data analysis, and discuss implications of their findings for practice and further résearch. Students learn to apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgment through the process of data collection, data analysis, writing a research report, and presenting their research.
SELECTION CRITERIA:
Must meet high academic standards.
Addresses a true and significant need of the organization determined through formalized needs assessment process.
Methods (how the project is carried out) are collaborative in nature (involves key stakeholders, administration, organizations, etc).
Includes an evaluative component and demonstrates measurable outcomes.
Demonstrates intent to create significant impact on communities, organizations, programs, or individuals.
Client outcomes are improved and are reflected in improved outcomes.
New systems are put into place that did not exist prior to the project.
Contributes in measurable ways to emerging policy in organizations or communities.
In the discussion section, addresses sustainability where new procedures, programs, or systems are put in place that did not exist prior.
The BSW posters were systematically scored (0 to 20 points) by a team of poster judges from the BSW department. The posters with the highest ratings were selected for the BSW Research Poster Awards. The judging evaluation criteria included the following 4 components:
1) Discussed the main purpose of the study or research question clearly.
2) Demonstrated content clarity and coherence.
3) Applied project implications and future research clearly and coherently.
4) Overall poster project design and organization.
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The posters are organized below by the Social Work Grand Challenges. The Grand Challenges have been put forth by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare to provide a framework for the profession to champion social progress powered by science.
To browse posters by Grand Challenge, scroll below and click on either BSW or MSW Posters. If you are looking for a specific student's poster, click either the BSW Directory or MSW Directory below to find their name and the Grand Challenge to which their project is linked. Then, return to this home page and scroll below to find their specific Grand Challenge.