School psychology recruitment : utilizing experiential learning to increase interest among college students

The purpose of this study is to explore possible interventions aimed at educating college students about the roles, services, settings, and job outlook for school psychologists as a means to increase interest in the field as a graduate school career option. More specifically, the proposed study aims to test what type of educational activity- didactic information presentation versus didactic information presentation coupled with an experiential learning task- interacts with which learning style to produce the greatest gains in interest in the field as a graduate school option. Further, the proposed study seeks to determine if a correlation exists between knowledge of school psychology and level of interest in the field.