Waterloo Centre for the Advancement
of Co-operative Education (WatCACE)
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G1
Phone: 519-888-4567 x32355
The Waterloo Centre for the Advancement of Co-operative Education (WatCACE) offers seminars at the University of Waterloo focusing on research in co-operative education. These seminars involve the presentation of research results and their implications for the community. They are conducted in the hopes of raising awareness for co-operative education as a model that is suitable for theoretical and empirical work. WatCACE research seminars highlight the best of research on co-op from the University of Waterloo and other locations across the globe. For upcoming research seminars, visit our events page or subscribe to our Research Seminars newsletter.
Past research seminars and resources
2019
2018
- Understanding the Perspectives of Employers: Talent Challenges, Needs and Recruiting Practices
Date: October 30, 2018
Speakers: Judene Pretti (Director, WatCACE) and Dave Drewery (Research Coordinator, WatCACE) - A Holistic Approach to Evaluating Macquarie University's Institution-Wide Work-Integrated Learning Program
Date: August 28, 2018
Speaker: Dr. Kate Lloyd (Associate Professor, Director for Learning, Teaching and Research in PACE, Macquarie University, Australia)
2017
- The WatCV Research Study
Date: November 29, 2017
Speakers: Jill Tomasson Goodwin, Katherine Lithgow and Joslin Goh (WatCV Research Team)- Slides (PDF)
- Webinar
- WatCV Rubric (PDF)
- Undergraduate Degree Level Expectations (Word Doc)
- WatCV Rubric Demo (log in with your WatIAM credentials to take a closer look at the rubric features)
- Diversity Recruitment Practices and Workplace Realities: A Study of Co-op Students
Date: November 8, 2017
Speaker: Edward Yeung (PhD student, Industrial/Organizational Psychology) - Sustaining Partnerships and Employer Perspectives on Work-integrated learning
Date: October 11, 2017
Speakers: Judene Pretti and Dave Drewery (WatCACE) - Lifelong Learning
Date: March 9, 2017
Speakers: Judene Pretti and Dave Drewery (WatCACE)- Slides (PDF)
2016
- Trends in Work-Integrated Learning Research
Date: June 23, 2016
Speaker: Dr. Karsten Zegwaard (Director of Co-operative Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand)- Slides (PDF)
- The Co-op Workplace Support System
Date: February 11, 2016
Speaker: Dr. Antoine Pennaforte (Associate Professor, CNAM, Paris, France) - Looking Back: WatCACE Research in 2015
Date: January 11, 2016
Speakers: Colleen Nevison and Lauren Cormier (WatCACE co-op students)- Slides (PDF)
- Video Recording
2012-2015
- Examining the mental health and well-being of co-operative education students transitioning into the labour market
Date: December 4, 2015
Speaker: Margaret McBeath (Graduate student of Dr. Maureen Drysdale, University of Waterloo and St. Jerome's University)- Slides (PDF)
- Video Recording
- Co-operative Education Analytics
Date: September 22, 2015
Speaker: Yuheng (Helen) Jiang (Graduate student of Dr. Lukasz Golab, Management Sciences, University of Waterloo) - An Examination of Social Networks and Work-Integrated Learning
Date: May 22, 2015
Speaker: Phil Gardner (Executive Director of Career Network and Director of Collegiate Employment Research Institute, Michigan State University)- Slides (PDF)
- Student Accomplishments in the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program: A Ten Year Review
Date:December 9, 2014
Speaker: Rachel McDonald (Applied Health Science co-op student of Dr. Edward Chow, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre) - Expanding our Vision of Work-Integrated Learning Assessment
Date:October 28, 2013
Speaker: Sheri Dressler (University of Central Florida)- Slides (PDF)
- Waterloo and Work-Integrated Learning: Three Perspectives
Date: May 21, 2013
Speaker: Richard Wiggers (Research Director, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario)- Slides (PDF)
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Conceptualizing Work-Integrated Learning From Organizational and Empirical Perspectives
Date: March 27, 2013
Speakers: Kristina Johansson and Ville Björck (University West, Sweden) - UWaterloo as a Model Co-op Employer: A cross-unit co-op student research project
Date: November 27, 2012
Speakers: Judene Pretti and Robyn Hocking- Slides (PDF)
- The co-op advantage: Insights from a national panel of Canadian students
Date: September 12, 2012
Speaker: Alex Usher (President, Higher Education Strategy Associates)- Slides (PDF)
- The Intersection Between Post-secondary Learning and the Workplace
Date: March 19, 2012
Speaker: Richard Wiggers (Research Director, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO))
2011
- The stigma inoculation hypothesis: How stigma holds students back, and how co-op can help
Date:December 8, 2011
Speaker: Christine Logel (Department of Psychology, Renison University College) - Self-concept and tacit knowledge: exploring the differences between co-op and non co-op university students
Date: November 18, 2011
Speaker: Margaret McBeath (Department of Psychology) - Integration of learning: classroom, workplace and PD modules
Date: April 5, 2011
Speakers: Robert Sproule (School of Accounting and Finance) and Judene Pretti (Director, WatPD) - Do co-op job ads include gender stereotyped language, and does it matter?
Date: March 22, 2011
Speaker: Justin Friesen (Department of Psychology) - Everything you ever wanted to ask employers about Co-op Undergraduate Degree Level Expectations, but were afraid...
Date: March 3, 2011
Speaker: Rocco Fondacaro (Director, Student and Faculty Relations, Co-operative Education) - Does co-op have particular benefits for negatively stereotyped minority students (e.g., women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields)?
Date: January 18, 2011
Speaker: Christine Logel (Department of Psychology)
2010
- Speaker: Nancy Johnston
Date: October 21, 2010
Dr. Johnston is the former Director of Co-operative Education at Simon Fraser University and has been an active participant and leader in the co-op community at the provincial, national and international levels. Her research has dealt with inter-related issues around the pedagogy of the co-op curriculum, the teaching of employability skills and the measurement of learning in co-op students. She will be speaking about Co-operative Education, Recruitment and Retention from a multi-institutional study. - Speaker: Judene Pretti
Date: April 20, 2010
WatPD is a program of seven professional development courses some of which are required of all co-op students. In her presentation she focused on the development and evaluation of the program with particular emphasis on ongoing evaluation plans and activities- Slides (PDF)
- Speaker: Nancy Waite
Date: March 30, 2010
The March 30, 2010 speaker was Dr. Nancy Waite, Associate Professor and Associate Director for Practice-Based Education in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo. As Associate Director, Practice-Based Education, she is responsible for the vision, program objectives and long-range plan for practice-based education. She is guiding the school’s initiatives relating to the co-op aspects of the program and shared their research, development and evaluation activities. - Speaker: Kerry Mahoney
Date: February 25, 2010
The February 25, 2010 speaker was Kerry Mahoney, Director of Career Services at the University of Waterloo. The focus of her work is on student learning outcomes. As an example of her work, recently presented at the meetings of the World Association for Co-operative Education (WACE) she talked about how learning outcomes were assessed (using both subjective and objective measures) in one domain, namely resume writing, and the consequences of instruction (online and face-to-face) in that domain. - Speaker: Maureen Drysdale
Date: January 28, 2010
The January 28, 2010 speaker was Dr. Maureen Drysdale, an Associate Professor of psychology at St. Jerome’s University. She, with colleagues, has done extensive SSHRC-funded work on school-to-work transitions and, more recently on the psychological consequences of the co-op experience. She also is currently the leader of a large, international project (fourteen universities in eight countries) on entering and exiting characteristics of both co-op and regular students.