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Evaluation of the Internship and the Effectiveness of Online Platforms

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Evaluating the success of internships is important to provide evidence of the impacts of experiential internship learning programs. The use of appropriate assessment techniques serves as a potential approach to examine whether desired internship learning outcomes have been satisfactorily achieved.

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Chu, S. (2020). Evaluation of the Internship and the Effectiveness of Online Platforms. In: Social Media Tools in Experiential Internship Learning. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1560-6_8

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