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Dean, Bonnie Amelia; Rook, Laura – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: Students experience a range of benefits by participating in work-based learning (WBL) including increased employability skills, career development learning and enhanced industry networks. However, some approaches to WBL are not easily accessed by all students, with placement-based models placing demands on students to attend a physical…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Job Placement, Access to Education, Sustainability
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Mollie Dollinger; Tim Corcoran; Denise Jackson; Sarah O'Shea – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
Definitions of disability are changing, shifting from a narrow medical diagnosis to a biopsychosocial model of disability, where disability is conceptualised as a series of relational conditions that can potentially disadvantage individuals within environments. Implications of this new understanding of disability will have significant effects in…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Inclusion, Biological Influences, Social Influences
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Effeney, Gerard – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2020
Work Integrated Learning (WIL) increases the 'work readiness' of university graduates but it is a complex undertaking and involves numerous risks for the stakeholders involved. A systematic review of the literature published between 2012 and 2017 reveals that the discourses related to risk and WIL are quite limited with the perspectives of key…
Descriptors: Risk, Experiential Learning, Stakeholders, Higher Education
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
"Research Messages 2021" highlights the diverse range of research activities undertaken over the past year by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). In 2021, research was shaped both by the VET (vocational education and training) reform agenda, and issues emerging from the pandemic. The 2021 national VET research…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Job Training
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Young, Karen; James, Kimberley; Noy, Sue – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
Work integrated learning (WIL) educators using reflective practice to facilitate student learning require a set of standards that works within the traditional assessment frame of Higher Education, to ascertain the level at which reflective practice has been demonstrated. However, there is a paucity of tested assessment instruments that provide…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Reflection, Student Evaluation, Scoring Rubrics
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Smith, Paul J.; Scott, Jonathan M. – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
This paper explores the views that students and employers have on innovative work-based learning (WBL) programmes in English higher education. The experiences of both students and employers were analysed methodologically, using the organizational story-telling framework (Gabriel, 1999). The themes that have emerged are learning support,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Work Experience Programs, Universities
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Costley, Carol; Armsby, Pauline – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2007
Work-based learning is used and assessed in higher education a variety of ways. In this paper we look particularly at the differences between the assessment of WBL when it is constructed as a field of study, i.e., using generic and transdisciplinary criteria and when it is constructed as a mode of study, i.e., when it is assessed using subject…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Program Evaluation, Workshops, Foreign Countries
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Walsh, Anita – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2007
The paper will explore Biggs' concept of constructive alignment in the context of work-based learning (WBL). In his book "Teaching for Quality Learning at University" Biggs quotes Tyler making the claim that "Learning takes place through the active behaviour of the student: it is what "he" does that he learns, not what the teacher does". Biggs'…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Models, Program Evaluation, Active Learning
Rauh, Morton A. – 1971
The conventional response to the financial crisis facing higher education is to increase tuition or request larger legislative appropriations. Another response, however, is possible--the wider use of cooperative education or work-study plans. There are three distinct advantages to work-study plans: (1) learning takes place in less costly settings…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Costs, Financial Problems, Higher Education
Byrne, Patick H. – 1981
This paper examines the philosophy behind the Pulse Program of Boston College and its attempt at integrating theory and practice and transforming student's paradigms of justice and love. The basic idea of the program, begun in the fall of 1969, is that students receive academic credit for participation in off-campus field projects which have a…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Justice
Lanese, Lorena D.; Fitch, Wendy C. – Performance and Instruction, 1983
Presents an overview of a 16-step internship model. The steps range from the initial contact between the company and university to final evaluation of the internship, in which the company and university representatives, project coordinator, and student intern examine to what extent their objectives and expectations have been met. (EAO)
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Internship Programs, Models
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Howard, Mary – Journal of Cooperative Education, 1977
Describes the Cuban work-study program, the circumstances which gave rise to it, and the overall objectives it hopes to achieve. Then the United States model is discussed. Some thought is given to the future of work-study efforts in U.S. colleges, especially in light of the continuing economic recession. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational History, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bogo, Marion; Taylor, Imogen – Journal of Social Work Education, 1990
This paper presents a framework for a health specialization curriculum in schools of social work. This framework is based on the roles (facilitator, educator, and counselor/therapist) associated with three domains of practice in hospitals (direct service to a client/family; organizational and community services on behalf of client; and encouraging…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, College Curriculum, Graduate Students, Higher Education
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McNeil, John; Litrio, John L. – Journal of Education for Social Work, 1981
A social welfare agency owned and operated by the Graduate School of Social Work serves as an innovative field experience setting, offering an alternative to traditional agency-based field practice. The model is examined relative to one view of the stages of development of the social work profession. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Clinics, Community Services, Field Experience Programs, Field Instruction
Harrow, Anita J. – New Directions for Experiential Learning, 1978
Periodic assessment of cooperative education programs is shown to provide a sound information basis for future program directions. A comorehensive evaluation model is described that focuses on what is done, how it is done, and why it is important. Specific goals are outlined. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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