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To understand students' own level of awareness or knowledge of cooperative education and the features or advantages this educational approach offers them, StudentPoll asked respondents, on an open-ended basis, to tell us what they knew about co-op/cooperative education. This question was posed to those students who said they had heard of co-op/cooperative education.
Nearly one-quarter described cooperative education as an opportunity to work
with people in your field of interest and gain valuable career-related experience.
Another 13 percent described cooperative education as a way for them to get
a grade and college credit while working. Twelve percent said co-op gave them
the opportunity to take a class and obtain a job related to that particular
course. Only 5 percent described co-op as an opportunity to earn money while
you learn. However, when pressed, nearly one-third of those indicating that
they had heard of co-op/cooperative
education,
reported
that
they didn't
remember
or didn't know anything about co-op.
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