Target Audience

The target audience was designated as students currently enrolled in co-op, formerly enrolled in co-op and now in the regular stream, and students who have used CECA services such as résumé help and cover letter preparation.

Distribution

The survey was made available to students via the Science Society (“SciSoc”) webpage, social media, and departmental clubs groups/pages. Principally, students accessed the survey via the SciSoc social media outreach. When students took the survey many (~40) shared the survey with their peers via Facebook's share function.

Survey Instructions

The survey was broken into three main forms of questions: informational assessment, services assessment, and free response. The informational assessment questions guided students to choose from a set of options for what Faculty (or program if in Science Faculty) they were part of, what year in University they were (eg. 1A or 3B), and how many co-op terms they had completed. The services assessment questions instructed students to rank in order of preference various aspects of the CECA, their advisors, and their experience with either Jobmine and/or WaterlooWorks as applicable. These questions comprised the majority of the survey, and were structured to minimize incidental bias in responses (viz. the order of survey questions attempted to reduce biased responses). The services assessment questions were ranked from 1 being Poor, to 5 being Excellent, with 3 as Satisfactory in between. The last question on the survey was a free response question to allow students to expand on issues they felt were outstanding, or to address concerns not highlighted above in the services questions adequately.

Students were asked to complete the following informational assessment questions:

Q1. What is your current year of study?

Q2. Please select your academic plan, as listed in the undergraduate calendar.

Q3. How many co-op terms have you completed?

Students were asked to complete the following services questions (scaled):

Q4. How well do you feel student issues with co-op are addressed by CECA? (poor being 1, satisfactory being 3, and excellent being 5

Q5. Please rate the professionalism of your CECA co-op advisor. (poor being 1, satisfactory being 3, and excellent being 5).

Q6. Please rate the helpfulness of your CECA co-op advisor. (poor being 1, satisfactory being 3, and excellent being 5).

Q7. Please rate your experience with JobMine or WaterlooWorks as applicable. (poor being 1, satisfactory being 3, and excellent being 5).

Q8. Please rate your overall experience with CECA (poor being 1, satisfactory being 3, and excellent being 5).

Students were asked for comments through the following free response question(s):

Q9. Please share any feedback regarding CECA, and your experience with co-op, that you wish to be voiced to the Science Society Board of Directors and to CECA representatives.