Reflections on Reflections: The Use of Logs in Student Work Placement to Support Business Learning

2009 ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
Tim Friesner ◽  
Adam Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Student Work ◽  
Work Placement

Student work-placements from the company perspective: a case study

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reina Ferrández-Berrueco ◽  
Lucía Sánchez-Tarazaga
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Placement ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
University Services ◽  
Staff Recruitment ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Selection Of

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to report the motivations and perceived benefits of companies that collaborate with universities by offering student work-placement positions.Design/methodology/approachThe study follows a mixed methodology based on (1) a literature review on the topic, (2) a case study survey including companies that collaborate with one Spanish university in student work-placements and (3) meetings with collaborating companies in different countries and universities.FindingsThe most important reasons for collaborating in student work-placements were related to social duty, the opportunity of training students in company needs and as a source of staff recruitment. Conversely, the less rated motivators were improving the company's position within the sector, benefitting from university services and saving time in the selection of personnel.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research should include a bigger corpus of the number of universities and companies, as well as the type of collaborations with universities, in order to identify any resulting differences.Practical implicationsThe conclusions highlight the need to define/improve the mechanisms that contribute to a win-win context. This is the only way that collaboration can advance towards a genuine partnership that will provide an effective framework for universities and companies to effectively share the same objectives in training future employees.Originality/valueThese results are relevant because of the lack of quantitative and qualitative research on this topic.

scholarly journals Learning on the Job: Understanding the Cooperative Education Work Experience

1993 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Alison I. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Cooperative Education ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Employment Decisions ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Work Placement ◽  
Learning Programs

Cooperative learning programs in Ontario provide on the job learning experiences for students. This paper analyzes three cases of student work placements described in extensive interviews with students, teachers and co-workers. Some students had enjoyed their work experience while others had not. When the student experiences were situated in the socially organized work processes of the work sites, the diverse experiences were found to have a common theme. When students are able to participate in and make sense of the work process, their work placement experience was seen to be useful for making future employment decisions. Where students were marginal to the work process, their lack of knowledge often translates into an unpleasant work experience and decisions about employment based on an experience of failure. This article suggests that our understanding of student learning on the job would be strengthened by a focus on the socially organized work process.

scholarly journals Work placement reflective assessments and employability enhanced through highlighting graduate attributes.

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-59
Author(s):  
Julie Dunne
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Transferable Skills ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Work Placement ◽  
Core Skills

This study investigated the effect of activities to promote awareness of specific prioritised graduate attributes on the quality of reflection displayed in pharmacy student work-placement reflective blog assessments.The paper focuses on the results from a thematic analysis of reflective writing assisted by NVivo software from a control and research group, using the a priori codes of ‘reflection’ and ‘graduate attributes’, as part of a Participatory Action Research study.The findings show an increase in reflection associated with graduate attributes in the research group compared to the control group. More importantly, there is evidence of an increase in the variety of graduate attributes being discussed by the research group, with the specifically prioritised attributes featuring most frequently. Additionally, the research group were much more likely to explicitly identify the skill or attribute by name.This shows that activities that emphasise graduate attributes within a curriculum in advance of entering an internship or work-placement can help students by providing a focal point to frame their work-placement experiences in their reflective assessments. Students have an increased tendency to frame their placement experiences in terms of graduate attributes, as well as core skills developed in the curriculum. This consequently broadens their reflection and advances their employability, particularly initially securing employment, through improved articulation and evidencing of their transferable skills. It also provides a means of assessing the development of graduate attributes, which is a challenging but necessary academic task in a modern professional curriculum. 

scholarly journals Innovation and VET student work placement

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-537
Author(s):  
Steven Hodge ◽  
Ray Smith
Keyword(s):  
Student Work ◽  
Work Placement

Understanding innovation through the vocational student work-placement experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 409-428
Author(s):  
Raymond Smith ◽  
Steven Hodge
Keyword(s):  
Research Literature ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Placement ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Vocational Student ◽  
Interview Analysis

Purpose This paper aims to report and discuss findings from the first exploratory phase of a research project that examined how and in what ways the practice of vocational student work-placement contributes to innovation in host organisations. The focus of the paper is on identifying and clarifying how innovation is understood in this context and outlines six different meanings of innovation variably used by those involved in the work-placement provision – vocational education students, training providers and host organisation staff. The paper suggests that these six meanings evidence the disparity of work-based understandings of innovation and the need to be more explicit and accurate about what the term means in specific work contexts if innovation is to be realised. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative first phase of the project interviewed 41 students, trainers and organisational staff about the nature of their work and learning practices and the kinds of changes and improvements to those practices that they experienced through the placement program. Through these interview conversations participants were asked to describe and explain their understandings and experiences of innovation in their work. The interviews were transcribed and thematically analysed. Findings Interview analysis gave rise to a set of six distinguishable meanings that operate as definitions of innovation. These six meanings highlight the range of meanings the term innovation carries within small business work-learning contexts and the need of those who promote and encourage innovation to be mindful of these various usages. Research limitations/implications The findings reported emerge from a small sample and are only one aspect of the overall project. Further larger scale research is needed. Social implications The term innovation should not be considered commonly understood and accepted by those who promote it and within workplaces and organisational practice. Clear, accurate and specific work context consideration of the term is needed. Originality/value The project reports the voices and understandings of those whose work and learning are foundational to the emergence and enactment of innovation in work. These voices are all too often seldom heard and heeded. The six meanings they articulate for innovation contrast markedly with typical innovation research literature.

The Use of Student Work as Exemplars

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne T. Ewing ◽  
Robert Johnson ◽  
Jerry Rudmann
Keyword(s):  
Student Work

Pengaruh Pengembangan Karir dan Penempatan Kerja Terhadap Prestasi Kerja Karyawan pada PDAM Tirtanadi Provinsi Sumatera Utara

MBIA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Cut Ermiati ◽  
Dita Amanah ◽  
Dedy Ansari Harahap ◽  
Fitriani Tanjung
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Work Placement ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
North Sumatra

This study aims to determine the effect of career development and work placement on employee work performance at PDAM Tirtanadi, North Sumatra Province. The population in this study were all employees per division, amounting to 182 employees. From the total population can be determined the number of samples in this study amounted to 65 people. The data analysis technique used is the t-test, f-test, multiple linear regression and determinant coefficient test using SPSS 22. From the calculation results using SPSS shows that there is an influence of career development on employee work performance, there is the influence of work placement on employee performance and there is the influence of career development and work placement on employee performance.

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