Internship effectiveness evaluation by students and firms: A year of experience at the Faculty of Economics in Modena

Internship programmes organised by the Faculty of Economics at Modena are evaluated through two questionnaires: one for students and another for firms. The data collected over 2009, separately for students and firms, were subsequently matched. The data analyses showed that the internal homogeneity of the item batteries and of their dimensions – semantically derived from the questionnaire items – was satisfactory. The factors obtained through an exploratory factor analysis did not prove to correspond perfectly to these dimensions for students, while they did correspond in the case of firms. The identification of the determinants of effectiveness, measured through the internship evaluation provided by students and firms, was carried out through a logistic regression and a structural equation model.