ASSESSMENT TOOLS IN ART AND DESIGN: A CASE STUDY OF PRINCESS NOURA UNIVERSITY

Internships may be defined as “a form of on-the?job training in which people gain supervised experience and practical knowledge that is relevant to a specific field” (Patton and Dial, 1988). Internships can be an effective way of equipping university students with the job knowledge, experience and maturity required by future employees. The importance of internships in undergraduate programs has been widely recognized (e.g. Johari and Bradshaw, 2008), and is seen as creating win-win situations for the students, organization as well as the university (Coco, 2000). They also provide a way of introducing students to potential employees. Therefore, students gain by enhancing their employability in the competitive labour market and university faculty can use the experiences to benchmark their courses and standards against employer requirements.