出版社：International Association for Computer Information Systems
摘要：The benefits of internships are well documented for college students and can help students choose a major, stay intheir programs, network to get a job and help them in their first jobs. However, results are mixed with respect tointernship characteristics such as compensation and student and supervisor characteristics such as gender and theireffects on evaluations. Furthermore, little is known about how internships in STEM and non-STEM fields differ withrespect to student internship evaluations and supervisor evaluations of their interns. For this study, nearly 150student and supervisor evaluations were analyzed. Results showed that compensation and gender did not have aneffect on internship evaluations and that students in STEM internships believed their supervisors gave more clearinstructions, that their supervisors’ had more of an open door policy in place and students were more confident intheir abilities at the end of the internship experience compared to students in non-STEM internships. Implicationsand future research are discussed.
