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Research Plan 2: Hack for LA Volunteers Transferrable Skills
Proposed Research Agenda:
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.
Research Roadmap (this research is a subset of this roadmap)
- Wiki page: HfLA Volunteers Research Overview
- Roadmap document: Research Roadmap: HfLA Volunteers
Summary of Research
Question
- 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?
Purpose
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
Participant Type
- HfLA team members
Methods
An interview script was created with a range of qualitative and quantitative questions. Responses have not been collected yet.
Current Status
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
All Issues
- Label: Research: RP002
Outstanding task items
- 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
Assets
Google Drive folders
- Type folder: HfLA Volunteers
- RP Folder: RP2
Research Plan (including Audience Identification documentation)
Scripts
- TWE: RP002: IS: Audit of transferable skills interview questions
- IP HfLA Interview Script/Form
- Interview Instructions Google Doc
Interview recordings & Transcripts
n/a - Interviews have not yet taken place. Transcripts have not yet been finalized.
Synthesis (Miro or Figjam)
n/a
Presentation of Findings
n/a