A tool for clarifying expectations in undergraduate research experiences.

ABSTRACT: Articulating clear and achievable expectations is fundamental to both education and organizational management. In this article, we provide a simple intervention for clarifying expectations-and establishing that these expectations have been understood-which proved beneficial both to community college interns and to their internship mentors in biotech-related undergraduate research experiences. Internship mentors were asked to utilize a simple Expectation Clarity Tool to outline the expectations, success metrics, baseline assessments, and training strategy and support that would be foundational to their intern's project. These included expectations around conceptual, technical, performance, and professional skills and behaviors. Concurrently, but independently, community college interns were

SUBMITTER: Leung K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11360541 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature