School of Social Policy and Practice

Date: ______

University of Pennsylvania

School of Social Policy and Practice

MSSP INTERNSHIP

STUDENT REFLECTION FORM

This form has been designed to assess your experience in the MSSP internship. This will not be shared with the internship mentor or influence your Capstone grade. The purpose of the evaluation is to gather feedback on the experience and to inform future internship choices. We also intend that full and thoughtful completion of this form will provide some “talking points” for your job search. Upon completion of the form, your grade for Capstone (based on the semester’s coursework) will be posted.

*Please return evaluation to:

Roberta Iversen:

Geri Summerville:

Caroline Wong:

Student Name:

Mentor/Supervisor Name:

Agency/organization Name:

Agency/organization Address (City and State):

Full time student: ___

Part time student: ___

Dual degree student: ___ Dual degree program______

Dates of internship: ______to ______.

# Hours per week ______

# Total internship hours completed______

Were hours flexible or set? Please explain:

1.  Describe your policy/research project:

2.  Please describe the policy content and skills from the MSSP program that you found useful in your internship.

3.  Please describe the additional skills and knowledge that you gained from your policy internship. Please also discuss how you will utilize these new skills and perspectives, together with what you learned in the MSSP program coursework, in a policy work position.

4.  Do you feel that you received the instruction and supervision that you needed? Please explain.

5.  How often did you meet with your internship mentor? Do you feel that the number of meeting times and the length of the meeting times were sufficient? Please explain.

6. Was the internship experience what you expected? Please explain.

7.  In addition to other dimensions of your internship experience, please explain and discuss:

What policy skills and knowledge that you feel you didn’t learn in your MSSP coursework that

would have improved your internship experience?

What policy skills and knowledge did you hope to receive in your internship but did not

receive?

8.  Would you recommend this organization for future student internships? Why/why not? Please explain.

Edited: 07/13/2015