Internships and engineering: beliefs and behaviors of academics
Internships and engineering: beliefs and behaviors of academics
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实习和工程：学者的信念和行为
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发表时间：
2019
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通讯作者：
M. M. Lester
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作者：
H. Matusovich;Cheryl Carrico;Angela Harris;S. Sheppard;Samantha R. Brunhaver;R. Streveler;M. M. Lester
目的
实习在工科学生对未来职业道路的选择中扮演着重要的角色，尽管很少有关于学生从学术界收到关于实习的信息的研究。这一信息很重要，因为它有助于学生对实习工作设定的期望，而实习期望反过来又会影响对特定职业道路的经验和适当感的解读。本文以期望X价值理论为指导，旨在考察与工科学生互动的学者的信念和行为与实习经历的关系。
设计/方法/方法
作者对就业中心的13名员工和14名学术顾问/教职员工进行了采访并进行了分析，他们来自6所人口统计和地理位置不同的学校。访谈被编码，并在案例内部和跨案例模式发展。
发现
在所有六所学校中，面试参与者认为实习对学生来说在三个方面很重要：促进职业发现，提供职业技能发展机会，帮助学生获得全职工作。然而，参与者很少描述与这些信念相关的直接行动。尽管坚信实习经验的重要性，但缺乏充分利用实习经验的推荐措施，这是本文的一个主要发现。
原创性/价值
这项研究具有独创性，因为它考察了一个重要的视角，而这个视角通常不是与实习相关的研究的重点：学术顾问、教师或就业中心人员。多机构样本增强了这项研究的价值，因为尽管学校存在差异，但仍能看到共性，从而能够提出适用于各种背景的建议。
Purpose
Internships play an important role in the choices engineering students make about future career pathways though there is little research about the messaging students receive regarding internships from academics. This messaging is important because it can contribute to the expectations students set for internships which in turn influences the interpretation of the experience and sense of appropriateness of that particular career pathway. Situated in Expectancy X Value theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine the beliefs and behaviors of the academics with whom engineering students interact as related to internship experiences.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted and analyzed interviews with 13 career center employees and 14 academic advisers/faculty members across six demographically and geographically diverse schools. Interviews were coded, and within and across case patterns developed.
Findings
Across all six schools, interview participants believe internships are important for students with regard to three areas: enabling career discovery, providing opportunities for development of career skills and helping students with full-time job acquisition. However, participants describe few direct actions associated with these beliefs. The lack of recommended actions for making the most of the internship experience, despite a strong belief in their importance, is a major finding of this paper.
Originality/value
This study is original in that it examines an important perspective that is not often a focus of research related to internships: academic advisors, faculty or career center personnel. The multi-institution sample enhances the value of the study as commonalities were seen despite variation in schools, enabling recommendations useful to a variety of contexts.