Abstract

It has been twenty years since California scholastic media adviser Karl Grubaugh examined how professional media and scholastic media work together. To cut to the chase, not much has changed. Although advisers from all over the country said they wanted to work closely with the professionals in their area and would even do an internship, few advisers took advantage of any opportunities to work with the professionals in the way that, for example, medical school students work with doctors. The ones who did take the time to work with the professionals acknowledge, through qualitative and quantitative research methods, that working with professionals helped improve their classroom performance and enhance the opportunities they were able to provide their students. Supporting research dating as far back as 1938 shows that concrete experience leads to better learning.