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Article on effectiveness of Work-integrated Learning (WIL)

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Article on effectiveness of Work-integrated Learning (WIL)

   Added on 2020-05-04

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Running head: WORK RELATED LEARNINGWork Related Learning Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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1 WORK RELATED LEARNINGJackson, Denise. "Employability skill development in work-integrated learning:Barriers and best practice."Studies in Higher Education40, no. 2 (2015): 350-367.The article examines the effectiveness of work-integrated learning (WIL) inemployability skill development. WIL is instrumental for new graduates to functioneffectively in the work environment. In this paper author tries to elucidate the best practicesthat can be undertaken under the quota of classroom and placement activities to uplift theemployment skills of the new graduate students. On examining the effective classroomactivities, the article has focused on the effective motivational planning, goal setting and thensubsequent self-reflection on the overall performance and the total achieved outcomes.Another activity, which gained importance in this article, is placement activities assistingproper development of the employment skill. At the end, the article concluded that the skilldevelopment in the both classroom and during the placement is crucial for refining theemployment skills of the new graduates who are venturing into the corporate world.Preparing students as per the industry standards will help to eliminate stress and anxietyamong the students and will align their skills as per the employer's expectations. The findingsalso confirm the importance of the mentors and the co-workers in development of theemployment skills while at college and on-job training respectively. The main limitation ofthe study is, the framework of the article is majorly based on the reflection of the students buton the prevailing market trends. The article is helping is designing a rough employmenttraining plan for the final year student in graduate school.
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2 WORK RELATED LEARNINGFallon, Wayne. "Flashpoints in students' work-integrated learning in business:Implications for curriculum design."Employment Relations Record12, no. 1 (2012): 66.The aim of this paper is to ascertain the effect of work-related learning program(WIL) over the under-graduate students enrolled under the business studies and in their finalsemester. The outcome of the study is based on the student responses on the interviewquestions. Author while discussing the concept and importance of WID gave a contrastingviewpoint regarding how WID during early stage of graduate course can hamper the studentsoverall academic life. At the time of the initiation of the course, the student was not ready forthe job leading to negative effect on academic career and institution. At the end the articleconclude that the WIL Helps students to increase their capacity of critical thinking, helpingthem to increase their employment skills. The author also came up with the viewpoint thatstudents can achieve higher grades when offered an engaged learning platform. The articlealso emphasized on the introduction of the pedagogical approaches in the early years of thedevelopmental programs to felicitate skill development among the students. The mainlimitation of the study is on the analysis of the responses drawn against interview questionamong the students and thus involves high chances of biasness. The importance of article is itprovides flashpoint of reflective learning and subsequent evaluation.
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