Research Plan 2: Hack for LA Volunteers Transferrable Skills
This research can happen any time during the calendar year.
- Research Year: 2021
- Participant Type: Hack for LA Volunteers
- Participant Type Abbreviation: HfLAV
- For more naming convention info, please see issue #347 and the naming convention sheet
- Research method is TBD.
- Wiki page: HfLA Volunteers Research Overview
- Roadmap document: Research Roadmap: HfLA Volunteers
- What are the key metrics for Program’s analysis, and the impact and scope of the volunteering experience at Hack for LA?
- What are the transferable skills acquired by the volunteers at Hack for LA during their experience?
The purpose of this research is to understand
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The transferable technical and non technical (soft) skills that the interns at Hack for LA would be learning.
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How to extrapolate said skills into the Internship Program and use them as objectives and KPIs to enhance and analyze the learning experience of the program
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The impact and scope of the HfLA volunteering experience, which will help us in communicating value of the Internship Program
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How to devise, schedule, and allocate projects and issues for interns from different backgrounds, which would help them in learning, practicing and implementing industry-ready & cross-functional skills
- HfLA team members
An interview script was created with a range of qualitative and quantitative questions. Responses have not been collected yet.
Currently, an interview script with questions have been finalized. However, eligible participants are yet to be decided and recruited. Interview instructions were to be reviewed, however, that task has been placed in the icebox with the dependency for the script questions to be finalized. Task is linked below. RP2 Review of Interview Instructions
- Label: Research: RP002
- Create a new version of the research plan on our template, and verify all items
- Revise Interview Instructions #50
- Interview Instructions Finalization
- Participant Recruitment
- Interview Administration
- Data Collection & Analysis
- Action Items spreadsheet
- Type folder: HfLA Volunteers
- RP Folder: RP2
- TWE: RP002: IS: Audit of transferable skills interview questions
- IP HfLA Interview Script/Form
- Interview Instructions Google Doc
n/a - Interviews have not yet taken place. Transcripts have not yet been finalized.
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- Overview
- Program Details (apply here)
- Requirements
- Who are the Interns
- Benefits of being a mentor
- Dates
- Time Expectations
- Research Plans and Goals
(People making the internship program happen)
- Overview
- Join the Team
- Meet the Team
- Resources for Volunteers
- Cohort 2021 (First cohort)
- Cohort 2022 (second cohort)