Bartkus, K. R. (2007). A review and synthesis of scholarly research in cooperative education and internships: Part I. An analysis of quantitative research published outside the Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships. Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships, 41(1), 56-96.
Prior reviews have documented the nature, scope, and quality of cooperative education and internship research. Some have focused on quality issues while others presented annotated bibliographies or thoughtful commentaries on the status of research in the discipline. By facilitating an efficient evaluation of research issues, these reviews serve to assist scholars and provide direction for future studies. Despite these contributions, however, at least one gap remains in the review process; namely, an analysis of the research published outside the Journal of Cooperative Education. The purpose of this review is to address this issue by examining research articles published in alternative journals between the years 1987 and 2006. In doing so, the results provide a foundation for comparing the quality of research published in the Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships with those other journals.