Zoom or Gloom: The Challenges of a Virtual Internship Experience

IF 0.9 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Journal of Political Science Education Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI:10.1080/15512169.2022.2148532

Clinton M. Jenkins, S. McQueen, Susan L. Wiley

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Abstract

Abstract The rise of the Covid-19 pandemic changed many facets of life for college students. College students were sent home in the middle of a semester, forced to quickly figure out how to learn virtually and take classes online that had been in-person. This change also resulted in a proliferation of virtual internships. The existing scholarship on virtual internships is sparse, leaving many questions, specifically, what makes a virtual internship “successful?” We examine this question by analyzing feedback of interns collected via a novel survey of students completing a virtual internship during Spring 2020, Fall 2020, and Spring 2021. We explore the effect of remote interning on a student’s overall satisfaction with the internship experience, duties performed, technical difficulties faced while interning virtually, as well as specific factors that may improve the virtual internship experience for students. Results suggest that virtual internships can be highly successful component of student learning. We close by providing recommendations for internship coordinators interested in supporting virtual internship experiences.

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Zoom还是Gloom:虚拟实习体验的挑战

摘要新冠肺炎大流行的兴起改变了大学生生活的许多方面。大学生们在学期中期被送回家，被迫迅速想出如何进行虚拟学习，并在网上上课。这一变化也导致了虚拟实习的激增。现有的虚拟实习奖学金很少，留下了很多问题，特别是，是什么让虚拟实习“成功”？我们通过分析实习生的反馈来研究这个问题，该反馈是通过对2020年春季、2020年秋季和2021年春季完成虚拟实习的学生进行的一项新颖调查收集的。我们探讨了远程实习对学生对实习体验、履行的职责、虚拟实习时面临的技术困难的总体满意度的影响，以及可能改善学生虚拟实习体验的具体因素。研究结果表明，虚拟实习可以成为学生学习中非常成功的组成部分。最后，我们为有兴趣支持虚拟实习体验的实习协调员提供建议。

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Journal of Political Science Education POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.80

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36.40%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Political Science Education is an intellectually rigorous, path-breaking, agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on teaching and pedagogical issues in political science. The journal aims to represent the full range of questions, issues and approaches regarding political science education, including teaching-related issues, methods and techniques, learning/teaching activities and devices, educational assessment in political science, graduate education, and curriculum development. In particular, the journal''s Editors welcome studies that reflect the scholarship of teaching and learning, or works that would be informative and/or of practical use to the readers of the Journal of Political Science Education , and address topics in an empirical way, making use of the techniques that political scientists use in their own substantive research.