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Journal articles on the topic "Academic achievement Victoria"
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Harveson, Andrew T., James C. Hannon, Timothy A. Brusseau, Leslie Podlog, Charilaos Papadopoulos, Morgan S. Hall, and EvaRose Celeste. "Acute Exercise and Academic Achievement in Middle School Students." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 19 (September 20, 2019): 3527. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193527.
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(1) The purpose of this study was to examine the acute effects of aerobic exercise, resistance exercise, and non-exercise on measures of academic achievement and cognition in pre-adolescent students. (2) In a randomized crossover design, sixty-three participants with a mean age of 13.7 ± 0.47 years completed 20 min of aerobic exercise, resistance exercise, or non-exercise with a period of seven days between each bout. Immediately after each bout, participants were tested for academic achievement and cognitive performance. Academic achievement was assessed using standardized, age-appropriate mathematics tests. Cognition was measured using the Dot, Word, and Color tasks of the Stroop Test (Victoria version). (3) Participants scored significantly higher on the mathematics tests (F1,62 = 4.50, p = 0.038) and all elements of the Stroop Test (Dot: F1,62 = 8.14, p = 0.006; Word: F1,62 = 9.90, p = 0.003; Color: F1,62 = 7.57, p = 0.008) following acute resistance exercise as compared to non-exercise. Math test performance was not statistically different between the aerobic and resistance exercise treatments (F1,62 = 0.214, p = 0.645), but participants did perform significantly better on all elements of the Stroop Test following resistance exercise as compared to aerobic exercise (Dot: F1,61 = 25.82, p < 0.001; Word: F1,62 = 14.73, p < 0.001; Color: F1,62 = 20.14, p < 0.001). (4) Resistance exercise acutely influenced academic achievement and cognition in a positive manner. Such results add to the growing body of research that may support an increase in the prescription of varied exercise modalities within school settings for the purposes of improving academic performance and student health.
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Allen, Kelly-Ann, Margaret L. Kern, Dianne Vella-Brodrick, and Lea Waters. "School Values: A Comparison of Academic Motivation, Mental Health Promotion, and School Belonging With Student Achievement." Educational and Developmental Psychologist 34, no. 1 (June 13, 2017): 31–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/edp.2017.5.
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School vision and mission statements are an explicit indication of a school's priorities. Research has found academic motivation, mental health promotion, and school belonging to be the most frequently cited themes in these statements. The present study sought to examine whether these themes relate to student academic achievement, as indicated by National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) scores. A stratified sample of 287 secondary schools in Victoria, Australia was analysed using two language analytic approaches: qualitative emergent coding and supervised lexical analysis. The highest academic scores occurred when mental health promotion was included, though results depended to some extent on the analytic approach and the level of aggregation. Results do suggest that explicitly prioritising both academic performance and mental health is beneficial. Further, the study provides an approach for using language analysis to investigate multilevel constructs in schools.
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Allen, Kelly-Ann, Margaret L. Kern, Dianne Vella-Brodrick, and Lea Waters. "Understanding the Priorities of Australian Secondary Schools Through an Analysis of Their Mission and Vision Statements." Educational Administration Quarterly 54, no. 2 (February 20, 2018): 249–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013161x18758655.
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Purpose: The vision or mission statement of a school outlines the school’s purpose and defines the context, goals, and aspirations that govern the institution. Using vision and mission statements, the present descriptive research study investigated trends in Australian secondary schools’ priorities. Research Methods: A stratified sample of secondary school vision and mission statements across 308 schools from government, independent, and Catholic sectors in Victoria, Australia, was analyzed using qualitative and quantitative approaches. Findings: Academic achievement was the most common theme, with school belonging and mental health promotion themes cited by over half of the schools. School belonging was emphasized more often by Catholic schools compared with independent and government schools, and by rural schools compared with urban schools. Implications: Australian schools are seemingly adopting a dual purpose: to be academic institutions and well-being enhancing institutions. Understanding the priorities of schools using vision and mission statements may guide researchers, administrators, and teachers about how to better meet the academic and psychological needs of the students. The priorities of schools also have implications for how research in this area is communicated to schools, and this study provides a method for capturing these priorities.
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Crawford, Renée. "Beyond the dots on the page: Harnessing transculturation and music education to address intercultural competence and social inclusion." International Journal of Music Education 38, no. 4 (May 1, 2020): 537–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0255761420921585.
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Australia has always been known as one of the most multicultural countries in the world, but as globalisation becomes the norm and we begin to welcome people from countries with vastly different backgrounds, experiences, ideologies, values and belief systems, how can we harness the power of education to develop intercultural competence and enhance social inclusion? A reconsideration of what we teach and how is required in order to account for the social, cultural and economic differences and similarities embodied within the changing society and contemporary student cohort. More specifically, what role can music education play in fostering transculturational practices that provide opportunities for personal, social and academic achievement? This multiple case study is situated across three schools in Victoria, arguably one of the most culturally and religiously diverse and densely populated states in Australia. This research explores the perceptions, experiences and practices of teachers directly or indirectly involved with the music education programme in three schools that have a high percentage of young people with a refugee background. Key findings from this research indicated that intercultural competence and socially inclusive behaviours were seamlessly embedded in the music learning activities that were student-centred, active, practical, experiential and authentic.
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Paredes, Daryl T., Ronalyn G. Albopera, Gladys T. Balog, Vincent A. Buladas, Mary Grace D. Hoyle, Mark Vincent A. Guimere, Christine C. Renoblas, and Loriesyl J. Wado. "Mathematics Grade as Correlate to Performance in the National Achievement Test." University of Bohol Multidisciplinary Research Journal 8, no. 1 (September 10, 2020): 31–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.15631/ubmrj.v8i1.127.
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Tests in schools can be informative. However, the Department of Education administered a set of examinations like the National Achievement Test which is designed to determine the learner's achievement level, strengths, and weaknesses in five curricular subject areas at the end of the school year. The study intended to look into the relationship between academic performance in Mathematics and NAT results. There has been a purposive universal sampling design. It is purposive because the research is only studying the academic performance in Mathematics, and universal because the subjects of the study are all the grade six pupils of Victoriano D. Tirol Advanced Learning Center for four consecutive school years. Documentary analysis was used as to the data of existing records on the academic performance and National Achievement Test results in Mathematics. The association between academic achievement and NAT outcomes in Mathematics was investigated using correlation analysis and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The analyses revealed that there is a significant correlation between the pupil's academic performance and NAT results. Also, there is a significant degree of variance in the student's performance as to National Achievement Test Results in four consecutive school years.
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Marshall, Gail. "Helen Faucit: Fire and Ice on the Victorian Stage. By Carol Jones Carlisle. London: Society for Theatre Research, 2000; pp. xix + 416. $42 cloth." Theatre Survey 46, no. 1 (May 2005): 142–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557405290099.
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Helen Faucit: Fire and Ice on the Victorian Stage represents the distillation of decades of work by Carol Jones Carlisle on this eminent, but now largely forgotten, Victorian actress. The book is an impressive achievement, and one that will be of great service to the growing number of academics and students now working within the increasingly well-resourced field of Victorian theatre. As interest in the range of Victorian theatres develops, however, it is helpful to be reminded of the narratives that go to produce the spectacle of the legitimate and patent theatres. As Faucit's own family history demonstrates, that narrative was often far from legitimate itself, though it could, and in her case did, encompass a social elevation to the highest levels of English society.
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Stauffer, Andrew M. "DIGITAL SCHOLARLY RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE." Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 1 (December 6, 2010): 293–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000409.
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My aim in this essay is to provide a categorical map to the landscape of digital resources available to enrich scholarship on Victorian literature and culture. But I also want to reflect for a moment on the general state of digital scholarly work within the larger institutional structures of our disciplines. For over a decade now, digital resources relevant to the study of nineteenth-century literature and culture have been proliferating, becoming part of the way we live now as scholars and teachers. Yet reviews of such resources in standard channels have thus far been rare. There are a number of reasons for this state of affairs, all related primarily to the fact that digital projects have developed outside the well-settled infrastructure that has supported the academic book. This infrastructure is familiar to us, involving a network of institutions that includes publishers, libraries, scholarly societies, humanities departments, and academic journals like Victorian Literature and Culture. The scene of production of digital scholarship is, by contrast, variable and dynamic, involving experimental platforms, emergent collaborations, competing standards, rapidly-evolving technologies, and unfamiliar genres. Perhaps most crucially, digital scholarly resources in our field have only recently (with the advent of NINES [http://www.nines.org] in 2005) begun to receive systematic peer-review, of which post-publication reviews in academic journals have been a part. Because digital projects are more process than finished product (i.e., they are never “done” in the way a book is), they have tended to elude the reviewers. As a result of this unsettled environment, digital scholarship still abides in the shadows of the printed monographs, articles, and editions by which we have long measured achievement in the field.
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Konjarski, Loretta, Maja Husaric, Kate Kelly, Natalie KonYu, and Kathy Tangalakis. "Women’s work: Women leading women in a teaching-focussed first year college." Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice 19, no. 1 (March 8, 2022): 92–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.53761/1.19.1.06.
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In 2018, a community of practice initiative was introduced to enhance the career opportunities for the 53 women academics in the First Year College (FYC) at Victoria University. The FYC is a teaching-oriented college and thus the traditional career advancement through research is largely not applicable to women in the college – many of whom are teaching-focussed academics. The Women in First Year (WiFY) executive developed and implemented workshops with the aim of aiding women on their career trajectory and in getting more women to senior levels and into leadership positions. In this article we will argue that the WiFY initiative has resulted in greater career achievements for women in the FYC. Using data collected from semi-structured interviews as well as relevant research and FYC statistics on career progression, we will argue that WiFY has had a positive effect on the career trajectory of women in the FYC who have participated in their workshops.
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Vakaliuk, Tetiana, Svitlana Ivanova, and Alla Kilchenko. "ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO AS A TOOL OF REFLECTING THE RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF TEACHERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS." Scientific Bulletin of Uzhhorod University. Series: «Pedagogy. Social Work», no. 1(48) (May 27, 2021): 53–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.24144/2524-0609.2021.48.53-58.
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In the period of digital transformation of all spheres of life, including the educational and scientific sphere, the opportunity for scientific and pedagogical workers (SPW) to present their achievements on the Internet, including the results of scientific and pedagogical activities becomes important. The results of scientific and pedagogical activities of SPW are not only certificates of various activities (training, internships, participation in various activities), but also profiles in scientific and metric databases and the number of citations of relevant publications, information about achievements, list of publications, information about the teacher (education, scientific degree, academic title), range of interests, victories of students under the guidance of SPW, etc. That is why the purpose of the article is to consider the possibility of using the electronic portfolio as a means of reflecting the results of scientific and pedagogical activities of teachers of free economic zones. The following research methods were used in this study: analysis, generalization, systematization. These methods were used to analyze and summarize the existing experience on this issue, as well as to systematize existing approaches to creating an e-portfolio. Under the e-portfolio of the scientific and pedagogical worker, we will understand the information system, which will contain all the information about the achievements of the scientific and pedagogical worker, including scientific work, awards, etc. The components that the electronic portfolio should contain are singled out if it is considered as a means of reflecting the results of scientific and pedagogical activities of teachers of free economic education. According to the authors, such a portfolio should contain: general information about the SPW: surname, name, patronymic, academic degree, academic title, information about higher education (about all, if more than one), place of work, position, etc.; information on SPW achievements: awards, prizes, participation in events, victories in competitions, etc.; SPW profiles in scientific-metric databases: Scopus, Web of Science (Publons), DBLP, Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, etc., publications; certificates; additional useful links; contacts; abbreviated profile in English, information on inventions, patents, participation in international projects, intellectual property rights to the work. The electronic portfolio of the scientific and pedagogical worker plays the role of a means of reflecting the results of the scientific and pedagogical activity, and acts as a business card of the teacher. The availability of such a portfolio will ensure the availability of SPW data in open access on the Internet. Prospects for further research include the search for other means of reflecting the results of scientific and pedagogical activities, as well as their expert evaluation.
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Ramos, Delma, and Brenda Sifuentez. "Historically Underrepresented Students Redefining College Success in Higher Education." Journal of Postsecondary Student Success 1, no. 2 (December 14, 2021): 91–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.33009/fsop_jpss127615.
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Extant definitions of college success largely focus on macro-level academic outcomes including academic achievement, retention, and persistence, which are linked to a limited set of indicators achievable by students including high grade averages, extra-curricular involvement, and leadership that denote a successful college student. These normative ideas of college success sustain ideologies that dismiss the multiplicity of ways students experience success in college and most importantly, they define who can and cannot be characterized as a successful college student. Relatedly, the dominant narrative of college success frames historically underrepresented college students (e.g. first-generation, low-income, students of color) as deficient and as less likely to be successful, even though these students consistently have to overcome greater adversity during their college trajectories and consequently experience many victories that are not legitimized as a success. Therefore, the purpose of this manuscript is to propose a more inclusive definition of the term college success that accounts for the diverse realities of students historically underrepresented and reveals the direct connection between student success and institutional success. Authors draw evidence from two research studies to illustrate their proposed definition of college success and provide implications for research, practice, and policy.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Academic achievement Victoria"
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Lipine, Tavita. "Education of secondary Samoan students in New Zealand : the road to success : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1317.
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Horsley, Jennifer M. "Critical connections : high-ability students' perceptions of factors that influence NZQA Scholarship : a mixed method study : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1140.
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Demarte, Adele Louise, and adele@rahna com. "Middle Years of Schooling: The pressures on rural adolescents to achieve academically." RMIT University. Education, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080208.145838.
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Within a climate of continual change this study offers insights into the academic pressures experienced by rural adolescents to achieve at school. In the often challenging transition from childhood to adulthood expectations from others place additional pressures on adolescents' lives. To better understand these pressures, I conducted a qualitative study of six students (ages nine to 15) and their teachers in the Middle Years of Schooling within rural Victoria, Australia. Students were studied prior to the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) in order to examine the pressures on students facing the Middle Years of Schooling. The study was carried out over a 6 month period using a Naturalistic Inquiry process with semi-structured interviews and participant observation. This allowed access into the participants' subjective insights. A Collective case study approach was employed to situate the information in its holistic environment and offer thick and information rich narratives depicting the experiences of these early adolescents. The case studies also involved examination of the school experiences of the early adolescents. Academic pressure was then broadly viewed in light of these experiences and recommendations offered. The findings from this research revealed that the early adolescents in the study all experienced degrees of academic pressure and demonstrated varied abilities to cope with these pressures. External support provided by parents, the school, teachers and peers tended to provide support more than fostering resilience.
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Kotsiras, Angela. "The effects of acceleration on students' achievement in senior secondary mathematics: a multilevel modelling approach." 2007. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1704.
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Despite the vast research on the effects of acceleration programs on student achievement there is little quantitative confirmation of the benefits of these programs and there is no research that investigates the effects of acceleration on students’ VCE Mathematics study scores.This research attempts to fill this gap by considering four years of data provided by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) relating to achievement in mathematics. Acceleration in this study means the completion of the Year 12Mathematical Methods study during Year 11. The data constitutes experimental data for content acceleration and the results of students from schools without such acceleration programs provide the corresponding control data. However, the acceleration decision is not taken randomly by schools, so this data is only quasi-experimental in nature. The measures of mathematical achievement (Mathematical Methods and Specialist Mathematics study scores) are carefully audited, and are accepted as reliable and valid by the Victorian education system. Controlling for individual characteristics such as gender and prior knowledge, and allowing for moderation effects due to school sector (Government, Catholic and Independent) and school class setting (single-sex or coeducational), the effects of content acceleration are measured using multi-level modelling.
This study examines the effects of acceleration on the VCE Mathematics study scores of students who completed both Mathematical Methods (Units 3&4) and Specialist Mathematics (Units 3&4) in Victoria, over a four-year period (2001-2004). On average this involved 5341 students from 341 schools in each year with 829 students included in a content accelerated program.
The results suggest that content acceleration is beneficial, especially for students with higher prior knowledge scores. The quasi-experimental nature of the data means that a causal relationship between acceleration and students’ mathematical performance can be claimed. In particular, this study showed that the effect of acceleration on students’ Mathematical Methods (the Year 12 study taken in Year 11 by accelerated students) study score was not significant. However, the effect of acceleration on students’ Specialist Mathematics study scores was significant. Accelerated students performed, on average,2.7 points higher (on a 50 point scale) than equal ability age-peers who were not accelerated. Interestingly, for accelerated students who scored in the top 2% for their General Achievement Test, in the mathematics, science and technology component, their Specialist Mathematics study scores were on average, almost 5 points higher (on a 50point scale) than their equal ability age-peers. The statistical control of other factors means that these results can also be generalised to other states, other countries and, probably, to other subjects.
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Cologon, Raymond Joseph. "An investigation of comparative indices of background of tertiary entrants against academic performance." Thesis, 1997. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15424/.
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This thesis describes a study of new level one undergraduate entrants to higher education courses at Victoria University of Technology in 1993 and 1994. Approaches to the study of student achievement and
selection are reviewed and alternatives are investigated. An
integrated model for evaluation of success, drawing upon varied approaches adopted in previous international studies, is described and its application documented.
Books on the topic "Academic achievement Victoria"
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Ainley, John G. Primary schooling in Victoria: A study of students' attitudes and achievements in years 5 and 6 of government primary schools. Hawthorn, Vic: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1990.
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Adams, Raymond J. Science learning in Victorian schools, 1990. Hawthorn, Vic., Australia: ACER, 1991.
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Stokes, Helen. Out of education: A report for the Victorian Full Service Schools Program. East Melbourne: Dept. of Education, Employment, and Training, Victoria, 2000.
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Wilson, Robin, and Amirouche Moktefi, eds. The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817000.001.0001.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is best known for his ‘Alice’ books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, written under his pen-name of Lewis Carroll. He is also remembered as a pioneer of Victorian photography. But his everyday job was a lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford University. What mathematics did he do? How good a mathematician was he? And how influential was his work, both at the time and since? This book investigates these questions by outlining his mathematical life, describing in an accessible way his writings in geometry, algebra, logic, the theory of voting, and recreational mathematics, and discussing his mathematical legacy. There is also a full mathematical bibliography of Dodgson’s mathematical publications. This is the first academic work that collects the research on Dodgson’s wide-ranging mathematical achievements into a single accessible volume, and is written by acknowledged world experts on these activities. Much material is collected here for the first time, including the results of recent research. It has been carefully edited and is presented in an introductory and accessible form with many illustrations, both explanatory and historical. Expected to become the standard work on the subject, it should be of great interest to anyone interested in Lewis Carroll, Oxford, Victorian Britain, or mathematics.
Conference papers on the topic "Academic achievement Victoria"
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Venables, Anne, and Grace Tan. "Realizing Learning in the Workplace in an Undergraduate IT Program." In InSITE 2009: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3359.
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Higher education programs need to prepare their graduates for the practical challenges they can expect to face upon entering the workforce. Students can be better prepared if their academic learning is reinforced through authentic workplace experience, where the link between theory and professional practice can be realized. Increasingly, such learning in the workplace is being seen as an integral part of the university curricula as evidenced through the implementation of the Learning the Workplace & Community (LiWC) Policy at Victoria University, Australia. This policy mandates a minimum of 25% content and assessment of all academic programs be related to work-integrated learning. Recognizing the need for authentic workplace experience in the IT undergraduate program, a review found that the existing work-related learning component accounted for only half the required 25% LiWC commitment. Currently, the LiWC component is an industry-based capstone project that spans two semesters in the final year of study. These projects allow students to work on real-life software development tasks where they experience the practical challenges of building software systems whilst appreciating the needs of a business client. In a search of the literature, campus-located industry projects were identified as one of the two most common work-related learning experiences in IT programs, the other being internships sited in the workplace. By retaining the current project-based component, it was decided to add an internship to the program to further bolster the student learning experience and graduate outcomes. This paper details the existing program structure and explores two possible implementations for the achievement of the LiWC policy. The first approach necessitates the addition of one academic year of cooperative education internship to be placed strategically between the current second and third years. Alternatively, the second proposal sacrifices several elective units to accommodate a final semester internship experience. The paper discusses both alternatives against various issues under consideration: staffing and administration, assessment, industry partnerships, professional accreditation and its impact upon differing cohorts of students.