Post-practicum Project: Its Educational Purposes, Importance, and Roles

Abstract

This first section provides an overview of the need to provide post-practicum interventions to promote student learning and to reconcile their experiences in both university and workplace settings, as directed towards developing the kinds of capacities required to practise their selected occupations. It comprises two chapters. The first is an overview of the post-practicum project -its educational purposes, importance, and roles in achieving the kinds of outcomes being requested of contemporary higher education. The second focuses on and discusses the kinds of institutional arrangements, including curriculum structures and partnerships with workplaces, that can promote these kinds of educational experiences. The implications for higher education provisions are central here.

Improving placement learning at scale: a case study evaluation

“…In the following section, we present quantitative and qualitative survey data, encompassing participants' perceptions of their placement learning experience and host supervisors' perceptions of students' employability skill development. These findings inform strategies for enhancing pre-and post-learning placement curriculum opportunities to bolster students' job readiness, which is relatively scarce in the business education literature (Billett et al, 2020;Hains-Wesson and jI, 2020b).…”

“…In light of the many challenges as well as the limited research on placement preparation and post-learning in business education (Billett, 2019;Billett et al, 2020;Hains-Wesson et al, 2021;Hains-Wesson and Ji, 2020a), we evaluate a large-scale, in-person and non-compulsory placement programme within an Australian context by exploring the combined perceptions of undergraduate and postgraduate business students and industry hosts. The following research question helped guide our investigation: which was what are the key preparation and postlearning curriculum improvements most required to advance a non-compulsory, individual, inperson, unpaid business placement programme?…”

Job Satisfaction and Performance: The Impact of Interpersonal Communication, Placement and Self Efficacy

“…Placements are crucial for boosting job performance and job happiness in addition to interpersonal communication and self-efficacy. An opportunity experience like placement has the potential to increase one's perception of self-efficacy and confidence (Billett, 2020). Job satisfaction demonstrates that different people may not be satisfied with the same thing.…”

“…According to the preceding description, the authors suggest the following hypothesis: H1: There is an effect of interpersonal communication on self-efficacy. Billett (2020) states the opportunity experience of placement has the potential to in-crease one's perception of efficacy and confidence. Meanwhile, Ridwan (2015) demonstrated that whether or not an applicant is accepted after pass-ing the recruiting process, placement and selection is a crucial function in terms of quality and quantity according to the needs of the firm.…”

How do work placement learning instructional methods enhance students’ learning experiences?

“…Also, other studies (e.g. Billett and Valencia-Forrester, 2020; Nwosu et al, 2022; Ocampo et al, 2020; Okolie et al, 2020) have explained that the practice of sending students to industry for WPL is to ensure that graduates can overcome the pressures associated with low graduate employment, which has become a serious concern for HEIs, graduates, governments and policymakers. For example, Billett and Valencia-Forrester (2020, p. 2) pointed out that “there is a growing demand for students in all kinds of university programs to have access to workplace experiences as part of and to be integrated into their degree programs across a range of programs”.…”