2011: Grant not presented.

2010: “Spatial Analysis and Prediction of Co-op Job Distribution and Demand using Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Data Mining”

CAFCE is proud to announce that the 2010 CAFCE Co-operative Education Research Grant has been awarded to Dr. Alexander Brenning, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Mr. Grant O’Neill, Assistant Director, Planning and Financial Management, Co-operative Education & Career Services and Mr. Terry Goodenough, Business Analyst, Planning and Financial Management, University of Waterloo.
 
The research committee recommended this submission for the following reasons:
• The research is original and leverages the strengths of a proven science to apply to co-operative education job development
• It has wide applicability and can benefit all co-operative education institutions
• The CAFCE research grant would be the primary source of funding (and hence the research may not occur without CAFCE support)
• The predictive modeling features are interesting and may result in the ability to gain unexpected, byproduct data useful to co-op practitioners as well as future research

Sponsored by Education at Work-Ontario (EWO)

To be presented at CAFCE 2012 in Whistler, BC.

 
2009:  Seeing Cooperative Education: A Study of the Lived Experiences of Co-operative Education Students as Seen and Understood by Co-op Students, Staff, and Myself.  (.ppt) (CAFCE 2010 Conference Power Point Presentation)

Researcher: Jeela Jones, University of Ottawa
 

Each year, students enrolled in the University of Ottawa Co-operative Education  Programs live the experience of preparing for work terms. In this period of pre-employment, traditionally not regarded as meaningful to co-op experience, students are asking themselves important questions like, "What do I have to do to get a job?" and "What do I want to be?"  As a co-op practitioner I am privy to some of these experiences but I wonder what is not fully seen and understood, and so through photography and story I seek the humanness of students' lived experiences of preparing for work and what emerges along their journey of breathing continuity.

In this presentatin I will share the early findings from this study including the thoughts, words and photographich images gathered by the participating students and I as the students prepared for their first co-op work term.

Sponsored by Concordia University Institute for Co-operative Education

2008:  The Use of a Blogging Community to Prompt Learner Reflection during Co-operative Education Work Terms (.ppt) (CAFCE 2009 WACE Conference Power Point Presentation)

Principal Researcher: Sandra Birrell, Simon Fraser University

2007 (Pilot Projects):

1. A 360-Degree Assessment Model for Fostering Reciprocal Development of Professional Behaviors and Communication Skills Across Academic and Cooperative Education Experiences  (PDF Acrobat Reader) CAFCE 2008 Conference Presentation)

Researchers: Dr. Lorna Hayward and Dr. Betsey Blackmer, Northeastern University

Hayward and Blackmer 2007 CAFCE Grant Report  ((PDF Acrobat Reader))

2.  Comparing Employability Between Native English Speakers and English Language Learners in a Co-operative Program at a Large Canadian University (CAFCE 2008 Conference Presentation)

Researchers: Christine Arsenault and Renée Janes-Reid, University of Toronto

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