Full Description
A considerable number of higher educational institutions in North America, Oceania, and Europe, offer what are known as cooperative education, work-integrated learning, work placements, sandwich courses, or internships, to provide pragmatic experience to students, and its popularity is spreading to many higher educational institutions in the world. Alongside such development, the rising needs for theoretical research and objective assessment are felt among those academics and practitioners involved in these programmes.
The book offers a rigorous theoretical framework based on the human capital theory of labour economics and econometric analysis, which are well-established concepts in the field of economics, with an objective quantitative methodology to analyze and assess cooperative education programmes.
Contents
1. Introduction Part I: The Background 2. History, Present State and Definition of Cooperative Education Part II: The Theoretical Framework: an economic analysis of cooperative education 3. Investing in Human Capital: Education and OJT 4. Economic Analysis of Cooperative Education Part III: The Empirical Assessment: A statistical/econometric evaluation of cooperative education 5. Statistical/econometric Tools to Analyse the Effectiveness of Cooperative Education 6. Hypothesis Testing: t-test, z-test, χ2 test and ANOVA 7. Constructing a Framework for Regression Analysis 8. Who Takes Cooperative Education Programme? 9. Does Cooperative Education Help Raise Academic Performance in Japan and Hong Kong? 10. Does Cooperative Education have Positive Effects on Job Search and Performance? 11. Conclusion
