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  • Designing work-integrated learning placements that improve student employability: Six facets of the curriculum that matter

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    Smith, Calvin
    Ferns, Sonia
    Russell, Leoni
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    Smith, Calvin D.
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    Research into work-integrated learning continues to show through a variety of small-scale and anecdotal studies, various positive impacts on student learning, work-readiness, personal and cognitive development and other outcomes. Seldom are these research findings strongly generalizable because of such factors as small sample sizes, discipline-specific case attributes, and qualitative approaches that seek richness of detail rather than generalizability of findings. Drawing on a sample of more than 3000 students, the study reported here explored the following questions: What curriculum factors can be validly measured to ...
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    Research into work-integrated learning continues to show through a variety of small-scale and anecdotal studies, various positive impacts on student learning, work-readiness, personal and cognitive development and other outcomes. Seldom are these research findings strongly generalizable because of such factors as small sample sizes, discipline-specific case attributes, and qualitative approaches that seek richness of detail rather than generalizability of findings. Drawing on a sample of more than 3000 students, the study reported here explored the following questions: What curriculum factors can be validly measured to operationalize work-integrated learning curricula design? What measures validly operationalize the concept of 'employment readiness'? and What predictive relationships exist between these two sets of measures? Measures are based on students self-reporting of both curriculum characteristics and employability skill acquisition. Findings indicate that robust measures of both curriculum factors and employment-readiness factors are possible and that the curriculum factors are associated with students' employment readiness outcomes.
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    Journal Title
    Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education
    Volume
    17
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    https://www.ijwil.org
    Copyright Statement
    © 2016 New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Education systems
    Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified
    Specialist studies in education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/100878
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