Placements and degree performance: do placements lead to better marks, or do better students choose placements?
There has been a strong move recently to make degrees more applicable to employment; including work placements as part of the programme is one way of achieving this. Such placements are advocated to increase employability, but also for improving academic performance. This paper examines the relationship between undertaking a work placement and the class of degree achieved. It challenges earlier findings that undertaking a placement increases degree results. Studying seven cohorts of students, a well tested approach was employed that allows for sample selection - i.e. whether better students do ... Show more
Authors: Driffield, Nigel; Foster, Catherine; Higson, Helen E.
Published: Sheffield, England, ASET, 2011
Resource type: Conference paper
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