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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Co-op"”.
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Selected differences between co-op and non co-op engineering graduates
… differences existed between matched groups of co-op and non co-op graduates and to determine if selected variables were related to salaries. The average salary for co-ops was higher for both first and current positions (six years after graduation). These differences were significant at the …
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Green Beans - The Neighborhood Co-Op, Cooking, and Nutritional Living Center
… healthfully and prepare nutritious meals has become a problem in today's modern living. 66 percent of American adults are overweight and 19 percent of American children are overweight1. Constrained by the demands of work, raising families, and other daily commitments leaves little time for …
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Take Charge for Therapy Discharge: Outcomes of a Patient Education Program Applying the CO-OP Approach
… of Largo revealed slight dissatisfaction scores on the Press Ganey survey for both the occupational therapy department and discharge planning processes. This quality improvement project, <em>Take Charge for Therapy Discharge</em>, implemented a two-session patient education protocol using …
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Cultivating religious, racial, and cultural identities: Opportunities and challenges at a Muslim homeschool co-op in the U.S. Midwest
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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A Comparison Of Student Perceptions Of Learning In Their Co-op And Internship Experiences And The Classroom Environment: A Study
… There were 681 students attending the Rosen College of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida who participated in this study. A modified version of the Predicting Learner Advancement through Cooperative Education (P.L.A.C.E.) instrument was used in order to collect data …
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Preparing Students for Professional Work Environments Through University- Industry Partnerships: A Single Case Study of the Co-op Development Program
Collaborations to produce innovative models that link postsecondary education to workforce development initiatives have increased as multiple stakeholders respond to the call to develop a diverse, well-prepared STEM workforce. University and industry stakeholders in engineering agree that …
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The Relationship of Cooperative Education Exposure to Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy and Career Locus of Control
Cooperative education research suggests that co-op participation results in enhanced career maturity, yet little is known about the vocational behavior constructs that may produce these results. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between co-op work experience and career …
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Mentorships and co-op placements as a means of heightening the need for a secondary school diploma to the education of at-risk students.--
Both educators and politicians appear to be quite concerned about a dropout rate in Ontario's public schools of some 30 percent. With the basic understanding that a high dropout rate is costly both in economic terms and in human terms, something quite obviously needs to be done to reduce the …
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One Bad Board Away from Bankruptcy: Housing Co-operatives, Self-Management, and the Landlord–Tenant Relationship
This thesis explores the development of the natural condition of co-operation into a large, apolitical movement and the effects of reshaping working-class people into co-operators. Semi- structured interviews, content analysis, and a limited autoethnography through a community- based action …
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The effectiveness of co-operative education programmes for developing students’ awareness of the importance of generic competencies
… other educational institutions has established Co-operative education programmes (Co-op) in order to build a partnership with the private sector. Co-op was one of the objectives of the state’s sixth development plan (1414 – 1420h), (1995 – 2000) and is used to increase education sufficiency and …
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Infrastructure and agency : rural electric cooperatives and the fight for economic democracy in the United States
How do cooperative businesses influence economic and community development in practice? Recent calls for a "new economy" argue that co-ops and other kinds of distributed ownership should be capable of transforming neoliberal market relations into place-based, community-centered, and nonextractive …
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The employment consequences of secondary occupational and academic courses for minorities and females
… the long-term effect of participation in secondary vocational education and Co-operative Education for non-college attending high school graduates in general, and selected ethnic minorities and females specifically. Minority individuals represented in the study were African-American and …
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Student Satisfaction with the Cooperative Education Program at Virginia Tech
The Cooperative Education component of Career Services at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is undergoing a Business Process Re-engineering to develop the "Best Cooperative Education" program. The components considered in this process are the employers, the students, the staff, …
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Agricultural Cooperation and Horticultural Produce Marketing in Southwest Virginia
… to traditional practices of producing tobacco and cattle. Community leaders have expressed the desire to diversify the region's agricultural production base to include potentially more profitable commodities such as horticultural crops. In order for the small growers to penetrate the fresh …
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Characterization of malus germplasm and QTL mapping of fruit quality traits
… and efficiency in breeding programs such as appropriate selection of genetically diverse parents and selection of superior genotypes. Furthermore, location of quantitative trait loci (QTL) can lead to the development of markers for marker assisted breeding. By selecting for markers closely linked …
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Socialization of undergraduate engineering students into work-experienced organizations and occupational roles through a cooperative education program
<p>This study investigated cooperative education as an organizational phenomenon using a qualitative approach. The objectives of this study were to 1) describe the experiences of students entering an organization through a cooperative education program; 2) describe the organizational processes used …
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Increasing access to healthy food at a cooperative grocery store
… including public and private food assistance and community-based models, are being used to address food insecurity. In this participatory project, I worked with representatives of a grocery cooperative and interviewed social services staff and low-income residents from the surrounding community in …
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Power and Control in Disinvested Affordable Housing: San Francisco’s Limited Equity Housing Co-operatives
The promise of the co-operative housing typology extends beyond providing stable, affordable housing. Co-operatives strive to offer a resident-centered site of democratic participation, where ownership and limited equity combine to provide both collective and shareholder ownership of a valuable …
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