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Chopra, Shivangi; Golab, Lukasz – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2022
Co-operative education is a form of work-integrated learning that includes academic study and paid work experience. This provides new learning opportunities for students and a talent pipeline for employers, but also requires participation in a competitive job market. This paper studies competition through a unique dataset from a large North…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Work Experience Programs, Job Placement, Competition
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Salm, Veronica; Chopra, Shivangi; Golab, Lukasz – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2023
Cooperative education (co-op) programs combine coursework and work internships and have become popular worldwide. Using over 45,000 performance evaluations collected separately for in-person (2019) and remote (2021) internship positions, this study uncovered the characteristics of successful co-op students. Each evaluation included an overall…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Workplace Learning, Work Experience Programs, Internship Programs
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Chopra, Shivangi; Golab, Lukasz; Pretti, T. Judene; Toulis, Andrew – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2018
This paper describes two classes of advanced data mining methods that can obtain actionable insight from cooperative education data: text mining of job descriptions and graph mining of job interview data. While these methods are not new in general, they have not been widely used in co-operative education research. A technical overview of each…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Analysis, Research Methodology, Educational Research
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Parsa, Mohammad S.; Golab, Lukasz – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2021
Cooperative education is a form of work-integrated learning that includes both classroom study terms and paid work experience. Prior work has studied the benefits of cooperative education for students, employers, and academic institutions. In contrast, this article studies the impact of co-operative education on students' mental well-being. This…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Work Experience Programs, COVID-19, Pandemics
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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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Jiang, Yuheng Helen; Lee, Sally Wai Yin; Golab, Lukasz – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
This paper reports on the analysis of three years research of undergraduate cooperative work term postings and employer and employee evaluations. The objective of the analysis was to determine the factors affecting student and employer success and satisfaction with the work-integrated learning experience. It was found that students performed…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Satisfaction, Employer Attitudes