Assessment of workplace learning: a framework

The assessment of the work placement for cooperative education programs is a worldwide problem. In this paper the authors propose a framework based on research in education and sociocultural views of learning. The framework is then used to develop three models for the assessment of work placements. The authors argue that workplace learning is complex and socially-situated and thus any assessment model needs to take such complexities into account in order to do justice to the learning that occurs.

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