NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Sagal Ahmed; Lara Grollo; Daniel Czech – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2024
Growing concerns about the employability of science graduates has led most Australian higher education providers to incorporate work-integrated learning (WIL) into their science curricula. Project-based learning (PjBL) is a student-centred approach to learning that focuses on the application of discipline specific skills and knowledge in…
Descriptors: Industry, Active Learning, Student Projects, Work Experience Programs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Hayes, Melanie; Cejnar, Leela – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2020
Industry and Community Project Units (ICPU) are a work-integrated learning (WIL) initiative designed to provide an interdisciplinary, project-based experience for students based on real-world industry problems. With any new program, reflecting on the course delivery is essential for future quality improvement. Brookfield (2017) has suggested many…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Nontraditional Education, Student Attitudes, Student Projects
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bilgin, Ayse Aysin Bombaci; Powell, Angela; Richards, Deborah – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2022
Work integrated learning (WIL) has been the norm in disciplines such as medicine, teacher education and engineering; however, it has not been implemented until recently in statistics and not for every student in computer science education. There seems to be no literature on the use of WIL for data science education. With the changed focus of…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Statistics Education, Computer Science Education, Education Work Relationship
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dinning, Track; Ünlü, Hüseyin – Cogent Education, 2017
With graduate employability being high on many universities' agendas, it becomes vital that a curriculum delivers not only subject knowledge but also the opportunity for students to develop and enhance industry-specific skills. This paper is concerned with how a work-based project can support skill development and considers the views of students…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Curriculum Enrichment, Skill Development, Undergraduate Students
Overs, Robert P.; And Others – 1970
A pilot project of the Curative Workshop of Milwaukee which provided domestic work training for four trainable mentally retarded girls is described. School psychologists' reports of the four adolescent trainees are included, and recommendations for future programing are noted. Evaluation data reflect the girls' performance, amount of supervision,…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Females, Homemaking Skills, Household Workers
Burt, Ruth Fredine; Douglas, Marcia – 1977
The booklet is a guide for community resource people who have agreed to share their job experiences with high school students involved in experience-based learning programs. The programs allow students to observe and participate in the daily routines required in careers they may wish to pursue. Resource people can use this booklet to determine how…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Community Involvement, Community Resources, Community Role
McConnell, Sheena – 1999
The value of the output and services produced by students while enrolled in the Job Corps was estimated by analyzing data from a sample of 2 projects from each of 23 Job Corps centers. The projects were subjected to in-depth analysis based on independent-estimate and relative-productivity approaches. The following were among the key findings: (1)…
Descriptors: Career Education, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth