Believing that the undergraduate experience is fragmented and not preparing students for the world's complexities, educators across campuses are assessing and investing in improving culminating or capstone experiences to help students put the pieces together. Culminating experiences take many forms, including senior seminars, capstone courses, field-based experiences and internships, senior projects, and comprehensive exams. Participation in a culminating experience is positively associated with the extent to which students interact with faculty, collaborate with peers on academic matters, and experience higher-order learning and perceive their environment as supportive of their learning. What else do we know about levels of participation, quality of students' experiences in capstone courses, and outcomes?
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.