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Nisbet, Sharen; Haw, John; Caldicott, Julia – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2022
Reflecting on one's performance is a critical aspect of work integrated learning and professional life in general. This project compared 282 business and tourism students' self-assessment of their workplace performance against their industry supervisor's evaluation. The analysis included possible moderator variables such as gender, residential…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Business Administration Education, Tourism, Student Evaluation
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Andrade, Andrew; Chopra, Shivangi; Nurlybayev, Bahra; Golab, Lukasz – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2018
This paper investigates the impact of entrepreneurship on cooperative job creation in a large North American post-secondary institution. The data-driven analysis is enabled by two unique datasets: a list of companies started by the institution's engineering students and faculty, and a database of the institution's cooperative education (co-op)…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Cooperative Education, Job Development, Foreign Countries
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Sutherland, Karen; Symmons, Mark – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2013
Work integrated learning (WIL) units can be discipline specific and constructed for majors or degrees with a strong vocational orientation. This paper describes an undergraduate unit with its genesis in a public relations internship. The original unit enjoyed strong support from industry partners and was instrumental in many graduates securing…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Internship Programs, Public Relations, Units of Study
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Wolf, Katharina – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
Industry placements are popular means to provide students with an opportunity to apply their skills, knowledge and experience in a "real world" setting. Within this context, supervisor feedback allows educators to measure students' performance beyond academic objectives, by benchmarking it against industry expectations. However, industry…
Descriptors: Industry, Experiential Learning, Supervisors, Competence
Arkansas Univ., Pine Bluff. – 1989
A 3-year project in the University of Arkansas' vocational teacher education program used a problem-solving approach to help vocational teachers develop innovative methods to teach vocational content. The project had four goals: (1) to design inservice teacher workshops for high technology internship programs; (2) to identify and select…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education, Internship Programs
Duley, John; Gordon, Sheila – 1977
This handbook is designed for college faculty concerned with developing effective off-campus experiential learning programs, and with assessing the outcomes of these programs. The theoretical background of experiential learning is discussed, and the practical and implementation issues are emphasized: definition of educational objectives,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Competency Based Education, Cooperative Education
ACT, Inc., 2010
This report presents the findings for private four-year colleges that participated in ACT's 2010 What Works in Student Retention survey. The report contains information pertinent to only these institutions. Appended are: (1) Data for Private Four-Year Colleges and Universities; and (2) What Works in Student Retention: Instrument. (Contains 15…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, College Students
Ryan, Mary – 1999
This document presents and explains the Institute for Experiential Learning's Standards of Excellence for Experiential Education through Internships, which were developed to generate a discussion in the higher education community on the academic standards that should serve as benchmarks for assessing the elements of good practice in internship…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Diversity (Institutional)
ACT, Inc., 2010
This report presents the findings for public four-year colleges and universities that participated in ACT's 2010 What Works in Student Retention survey. The report contains information pertinent to only these institutions. Appended are: (1) Data for Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities; and (2) What Works in Student Retention: Instrument.…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, College Students