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Research Plan 20: Intern Interaction with HfLA Website Team
Proposed Research Agenda:
- Research Year: 2022 since the research plan was started in 2022
- Participant Type: Hack for LA Website Team Members
- Participant Type Abbreviation: HfLAWTM
- For more naming convention info, please see issue #347 and the naming convention sheet
- Interview Type: Exit
Research Roadmap (this research is a subset of this roadmap)
- Roadmap Wiki page: HfLA Volunteers Research Overview
- Roadmap document: Research Roadmap: HfLA Volunteers -(WIP as of 2022-08-31)
Summary of Research
The goal of this research is to conduct generative, exploratory research on the HfLA volunteers who interacted with the interns.
During the TWE Internship Program 2022, almost all of the interns who worked on a HfLA team worked on the HfLA Website Team. Therefore, the focus of this research will be on researching HfLA Website team members who interacted with the interns.
For the background of the goals of the Internship Program see Hack for LA Internship Project Overview.
Questions
- To what extent did HfLA members of the Website team interact with the interns?
- How frequently did they interact with the interns?
- How engaged were they in interacting with the interns?
- How, if at all, did having interns impact the Website team?
- How effective were the interns compared to ordinary HfLA volunteers in their work on the Website team?
Purpose
The purpose of this research is to explore the experiences that HfLA website team had in interacting with interns involved with the TWE Internship Program. These people could include but are not limited to the following:
- Tech leads
- PM
- Other developers
Participant Type
- HfLA website team members (Abbreviation: HfLAWTM)
Methods
Quantitative Analysis
- Conduct an analysis of pull request data on the Website team for all interns.
- The following metrics will be collected:
- The total number of HfLA Website team members who reviewed an intern's pull request.
- Frequency and % of HfLA Website team members pull request reviews during the internship
- % contribution to TWE Internship (all interns)
- % contribution of all pull requests during the internship time period (all pull requests)
- Frequency and % of intern pull request reviews during the internship.
- % contribution to TWE Internship (all interns)
- % contribution of all pull requests during the internship time period (all pull requests)
Qualitative Interviews
- Semi-structured interviews with the HfLA website team members who interacted with the interns (based upon the quantitative data collected).
Current Status
- We are currently writing the research plan.
All Issues
- Label: Feature: RP020
Outstanding task items
- Writing research plan document
- Create timeline for research plan
- Write interview script
- Write recruitment message for Slack (reaching out to participants individually)
- Finalize consent plan and external research plan
- Scheduling interviews
Assets
Google Drive folders
- Type folder: HfLA Volunteers
- RP Folder: RP20
Research Plan (including Audience Identification documentation)
Scripts
- TWE: IS22: RP020: HfLA Website Team Member Research Informed Consent Overview
- TWE: IS22: RP020: HfLA Website Team Member Research Informed Consent Form for Surveys/Interviews