1. NEOTEC
Why collaborate?
 Cooperation vs. competition through collaboration
and communication
 Common FDF/SSO easier for everyone, especially
fieldwork educators, just common sense
 Member dues fund awards, website, and annual
conference

2. NEOTEC
New AFCs:
 common paperwork
 institutional knowledge
 free annual conference
 Forum for learning
 Access to COE, AOTA, MAOT, RAE members
 Never re-invent the wheel

3. NEOTEC
Latest developments
 Still working out kinks with technology for remote
attendance and electronic voting
 New Standard Operating Procedures (available at
www.NEOTECouncil.org) ensure policies survive
changes
 Updated website design
 Research

4. NEOTEC
Research:
 Members identified need for metrics for
workload, fieldwork supply, justifying resources at
their program, informing practice as an AFC
 Different strengths, resources compiled as no program
has all strengths, resources on their own

5. Variable Non-Consortium Consortium Member P value (2-tailed t-test)
Nearby schools 2.256 3.975 0.0003
FTE 1.0167 1.247 0.0364
Practice Years 18.419 23.198 0.0153
Academic Years 7.605 11.173 0.0134
AFC years 5.907 7.654 0.1269
Competition Level 3.256 3.346 0.4413
Last Class Size 30.884 35.728 0.1665
Match Method Satisfaction 3.628 3.889 0.1061
Level IIs Started 57.488 68.012 0.1733
Level II Fails 0.907 1.222 0.2199
Level II Personal Leaves 0.500 0.235 0.2147
Level II Medical Leaves 0.233 0.235 0.9895
Level II Withdraw-failing 0.400 0.568 0.2858
National survey on AFC practice:
consortium membership