Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (GSPA) and Co-operative and Experience Education (CEE) would like to hear about your work-integrated learning (WIL) experience.
What do we mean by graduate WIL? Many graduate students are involved in discipline-specific research activities that constitute WIL either as part of degree requirements (e.g., thesis or Master’s Research Project) or as additional research projects during their graduate training. Such research would involve an industry or community partner and an identified Waterloo faculty collaborator (in most cases, the research supervisor). For research to be considered WIL, it must include:
- Co-creation of research objectives between the external partner and the student/faculty member;
- Active engagement and interaction between the student and the external partner;
- The external partner’s role in providing feedback or assessing the student’s work.
This survey seeks your input about your graduate WIL involvement with an external (outside of the University of Waterloo) partner. Your feedback will help us enhance support for graduate WIL opportunities and the students participating in them.
The survey will take about 10 minutes and will be available until 11:59 pm on December 6, 2024.
Participation in this survey is confidential and voluntary1. You may decline to respond to any question by leaving it blank. Public survey reports will include only summarized results, ensuring no individual can be identified. Access to the raw survey data will be limited to authorized personnel at GSPA and CEE who are responsible for analyzing and interpreting the results. This data will be stored for one year in a secure, encrypted and password protected location.
1 This online survey is operated by Qualtrics. Qualtrics has implemented technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to protect the information provided via the Services from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet transmission is ever fully secure or error free.