Generic skills : do capstone courses deliver? Keller, Susan, Chan, Caroline and Parker, Craig 2010, Generic skills : do capstone courses deliver?, in HERDSA 2010 : Refereed papers from the 33rd HERDSA Annual International Conference, HERDSA, Milperra, N.S.W., pp. 383-393. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads parker-genericskills-2010.pdf Published version application/pdf 511.85KB 511 Title Generic skills : do capstone courses deliver? Author(s) Keller, Susan Chan, Caroline Parker, Craig orcid.org/0000-0003-3785-8142 Conference name Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. Conference (33rd : 2010 : Melbourne, Vic.) Conference location Melbourne, Vic. Conference dates 6-9 July 2010 Title of proceedings HERDSA 2010 : Refereed papers from the 33rd HERDSA Annual International Conference Editor(s) [Unknown] Publication date 2010 Series Research and Development in Higher Education : Reshaping Higher Education v.33 Conference series Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Conference Start page 383 End page 393 Total pages 11 Publisher HERDSA Place of publication Milperra, N.S.W. Keyword(s) generic skills capstone course student perceptions Summary Generic skills are increasingly the focus of universities worldwide and are often developed in professional practice courses. This paper presents qualitative findings from students regarding their perceptions of the generic skills they developed during a capstone course in an Information Systems program. The study found that the capstone course improved their collaborative team-work, presentation skills and ability to apply skills/knowledge to new situations. The paper also demonstrates that students’ perceptions of generic skills were more closely tied to the discipline than university-wide generic skills. This lends support for generic skills policy/practice to be driven bottom-up rather than top-down. Notes Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner. ISBN 0908557809 ISSN 0155-6223 Language eng Field of Research 130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 930104 Moral and Social Development (incl. Affect) HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed HERDC collection year 2010 Copyright notice ©2010, HERDSA and the authors. Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30030404 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Business and Law School of Information and Business Analytics Higher Education Research Group Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 29 Sep 2010, 16:04:10 EST Thu, 07 Oct 2010, 13:24:38 EST Thu, 07 Oct 2010, 13:28:04 EST Thu, 07 Oct 2010, 13:30:18 EST Thu, 07 Oct 2010, 13:31:51 EST Thu, 07 Oct 2010, 13:40:33 EST Mon, 11 Oct 2010, 08:19:53 EST Wed, 18 May 2011, 14:36:44 EST Wed, 18 May 2011, 16:37:28 EST Fri, 16 Mar 2012, 18:17:51 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 14:04:12 EST Mon, 29 Jun 2015, 14:34:42 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 10:43:39 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 15:05:56 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1191 Abstract Views, 514 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 29 Sep 2010, 16:04:02 EST by Katrina Fleming