The academic value of internships: Benefits across disciplines and student backgrounds

By Jens F. Binder, T. Baguley, Christopher J. Crook, Felicity Miller. 2015

164 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/699c3b40e0d9f66b13da112a970700581a0d1994

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In Education

1. Robin Mellors-Bourne
2. T. Hooley
3. S. Johnson
4. P. McHugh
5. F. Stage
6. Jane Artess
7. Vasti Torres

In Safety Research

1. S. Johnson
2. F. Stage

In Social Psychology

1. Robin Mellors-Bourne
2. T. Hooley
3. P. McHugh
4. Jane Artess

Citations in the corpus

• The impact of compensation, supervision and work design on internship efficacy: implications for educators, employers and prospective interns (2017, background): “Gender (female = 1, male = 0) is a common control variable in internship research, with recent studies finding mixed gender effects associated with the academic benefits of internships (Binder et al., 2014; Mansfield 2011).”
• Academic Engagement and Student Success: Do High-Impact Practices Mean Higher Graduation Rates? (2018, background): “Binder et al. (2015) concluded that college internships provide a variety of academic advantages to students from diverse backgrounds across a wide range of majors.”
• Employability: A review of the literature 2012-2016 (2017, background): “Binder et al. (2015), for example, used a large longitudinal sample (n > 15,000) across an extensive range of undergraduate disciplines and found effects on attainment from both student background characteristics and what they termed “internship” (work placement) experiences.”