b'8RAPPORT | Short TakeEven in Remote Learning, Classes Stay Hands OnSTUDENTS REPORT HIGH LEVELS OF SATISFACTION WITH ONLINE LEARNING EXPERIENCEsychological assessment is a testing processOur faculty has a strong virtual capability, P that uses a combination of techniques tosaid Schmidt. I really appreciate the openness help clinicians better understand a personand flexibility of facultythey have adapted to and their behavior, personality and capabilities.different ways of working, the consequences of social Assessmentswhich can range from things like shortdistancing and varying stress levels.questionnaires to large briefcases full of toys, booksIn one lesson this spring, Schmidt and other and imagesare vital and important tools both forstudents were sent individual sheep brains and practicing behavioral health professionals and forkits for dissection. Dr. Miranda Ralston, faculty professionals in training.director of the Neuroscience of Leadership Area of Under normal circumstances, students would comeEmphasis, guided everyone through the experience to the library and check out individual assessments toover Zoom. She collaborated with Dr. Suzanne Devlin, use under faculty supervision. When classes movedassistant director of the Leadership Psychology online in the spring, the 91香蕉视频成人在线Doctoral Program, to make sure the sheep brains and Library team took steps to ensure that students woulddissection kits reached the students in plenty of time still have access to testing kits.for their virtual residency.We felt it was essential that our students haveThe sheep brain dissection is a part of the the ability to continue their hands-on, faculty- Functional Neuroanatomy course in the Neuroscience supervised learning while taking their assessmentof Leadership Area of Emphasis in the Leadership courses virtually, said Julia Clement, head librarian.Psychology PsyD program, Ralston said. We To make it as easy for students as possible thistypically do this during the in-person residency after summer, the library staff gathered a semesters worthspending the beginning of the week learning about of assessments for each student and made themthe different parts of the brain and what they are available for curb-side pickup.associated with. With the help of Facilities, we scheduled a fewSheep brains, Ralston explained, are structurally pick-up dates that worked with student schedules,similar to human brains. Much smaller, but the said Clement. Students pulled up to the loading dockparts are there and in similar locations, she said. The and stayed in their cars while I popped the items indissection project gives students the opportunity to their trunk.see brain structures and areas theyre learning about For many students, the transition to onlinerather than only seeing them in pictures. learning was a change to the model they know. ForMy understanding and feeling for a brain is students in the Leadership Psychology PsyD program,much more vivid through the kinesthetic experience which is a hybrid program where classes are onlineof holding and dissecting it in my hands, said and residencies are held in-person, the transitionSchmidt, who also shared that studying leadership has meant a fully online experience. Leadershippsychology, in combination with the area of emphasis Psychology PsyD student Katharina Schmidt sharedin neuroscience, is what drew her to WJC. how the experience has gone for her.'