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1.6 CLARIFICATION OF BASIC TERMS AND CONCEPTS
1.6.1 Assessment
To assess means to evaluate. For the purposes of this study, assessment refers to the evaluation
of an employee's worth to a company and the evaluation of an employee's orstudenfs job
performance according to criteria setout by the job description.
1.6.2 Career Education.
. The specific model of education aimed at the discovery of knowledge, transferring skills, inculcating
values and attitudes (with a utilitarian value in the work environment) so as to enable the student to
take up a career; not as specific as vocational education but has a broader career emphasis
(Stoelinga, 1990:42).
1.6.3 Co-operative Education
Co-operative education is a programme (method) of vocational education for persons who, through
written co-operative agreements between school and employers, receive instruction by alternation
of study at school with a placement in any occupational field. However, these two experiences
must be planned and supervised by the school and employers so that each contributes to the
student's education and his or her employability (South Carolina Department of Education, 1981).
Porter (1981:1) defines co-operative education as a unique educational process, designed to
promote individual career development and self awareness by means of integrating classroom
theory with planned and supervised practical experience in vocational, educational or cultural
activities outside ofthe formal classroom environment
Davies and Hase (1994:33) describe a model for co-operative education that inVOlves joint
ownership of programmes between universities and the workplace. Thus, it is taken to include
provision of student placements in the workplace for practical experience; having people from
professional bodies or the workplace on course advisory committees; joint appointments;
contracting to provide or jointly develop educational experiences; and partnership arrangements
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