Research Plan 19: Technical Skills of Incoming Interns

Technical Skills of Incoming Interns

Research Date:

• Research Year: 2022
• Participant Type: Interns
  • Participant Type Abbreviation: I
  • For more naming convention info, please see issue #347 and the naming convention sheet
• Interview/Survey Type: Intake and Exit Surveys

Research Roadmap (this research is a subset of this roadmap)

• Wiki page: Intern Research Overview
• Roadmap document: TWE: Research Roadmap: Interns

Summary of Research

Question

• What are intern's technical skill level upon starting the internship?
• What are intern's technical skill level improvement at the end of the internship?

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to understand the starting level and improvement of the intern’s technical skills.

• Establish a baseline understanding of Intern skill level before they start the internship
• Establish an understanding of Intern skill level after the internship for comparison

This study will only focus on the intern’s technical skills, such as coding.

Participant Type

• Interns

Methods

• An entry survey will be administered after the application survey process and an exit survey will be administered during the final week of the internship

Current Status

• No research has been completed for this RP.

All Issues

• Label: Feature: RP019

Outstanding task items

• Research Plan (internal)
• Timeline
• Forms/Survey/Script
• Emails text to parents if participants are minor (if required)
• Recruitment plan for extra UXRs (if required)
• Selection criteria for UXRs (if required)
• Identification of recruitment channels for UXRs (if required)
• UXRs recruitment message draft for each type of channel (i.e. Slack, social) (if required)
• Interest forms for UXRs (if required)
• Recruitment plan for participants(if required)
• Selection criteria participants (if required)
• Identification of recruitment channels for participants (if required)
• Participants recruitment message draft for each type of channel (i.e. Slack, social) (if required)
• Consent Plan for participants
• Research Plan (external) - this is a subset of the internal
• Consent Form

Assets

Google Drive folders

• Type folder: Intern
• RP Folder: RP019

Research Plan (including Audience Identification documentation)

Scripts

Interview recordings & Transcripts

Synthesis (Miro or Figjam)

Presentation of Findings

Action Items Spreadsheet

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Related Wiki Pages

• Research Home page
• Research Output Overview
• WIKI Template for Research