Industry placements have been lauded as providing benefits to students, industry and academia. While semester-long placements that require a break from study are reported as the most effective, not all students want to extend their course. Short-term placements can also have positive outcomes for student employability, industry skilled-worker supply and enhancement of curriculum. Assessment of student performance though is challenging, as their focus during the placement needs to be on completing tasks for a sponsor. This paper is a case study of a successful short-term placement program used to identify the important factors and components of an assessment scheme for a short-term placement.
History
Publication title
Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI 2017)
Volume
45
Editors
HR Arabnia, L Deligiannidis, FG Tinetti, QN Tran, & MQ Yang
Pagination
1067-1072
ISBN
978-1-5386-2652-8
Department/School
Information and Communication Technology
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Publication status
Published
Place of publication
United States
Event title
4th Annual International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2017
Event Venue
Las Vegas, USA
Date of Event (Start Date)
2017-12-14
Date of Event (End Date)
2017-12-16
Rights statement
Copyright 2017 IEEE
Socio-economic Objectives
160301 Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum, 160199 Learner and learning not elsewhere classified