HPP Mentor Exit Survey

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HPP Mentor Exit Survey
The Office of Education thanks you for serving as a 2021 Hollings Prep Program mentor! We
are requesting your feedback on your experience as a mentor by completing the following
survey. Your responses are valuable in our work to improve the program. This survey should
take about 10-15 minutes to complete. Thank you!
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Prior to this year, how many years have you served as an HPP mentor?
1 year
2-3 years
4-5 years
6+ years

Go to Recruitment
--- RECRUITMENT --The Office of Education is working to develop a local consortium recruitment model that
empowers local NOAA Offices to work with institutions within their geographic area to recruit
students and further HPP's diversity goals. This section is designed to characterize the viability
of this model from the mentor perspective.
2. Were you directly involved in intern recruitment?
○ Yes
Go to Recruitment Feedback
○ No
Go to Intern Selection

--- RECRUITMENT FEEDBACK --The Office of Education is working to develop a local consortium recruitment model that
empowers local NOAA Offices to work with institutions within their geographic area to recruit
students and further HPP's diversity goals. This section is designed to characterize the viability
of this model from the mentor perspective.
3. Please rate your agreement with the following statement:
“My office has connections to local institutions with diverse student populations that would
benefit from participation in HPP.”

Strongly disagree

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o

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o

4. Please rate your agreement with the following statement: *

Strongly agree

“My office can be an active partner in student recruitment for HPP."

Strongly disagree

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5

o

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Strongly agree

5. Please describe any factors that influenced your rating of the previous statement.

6. What is your comfort level with working with local partners to recruit students
from underrepresented communities?

Not comfortable

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o

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Very comfortable

7. What do you see as barriers to recruiting students locally from underserved
communities?

Go to Intern Selection

--- INTERN SELECTION --This section is designed to characterize mentor perspectives on the intern selection process.
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Were you directly involved in the intern selection process (e.g., interviewing
applicants)? *
Yes
Go to Intern Selection Feedback
No
Go to Onboarding

--- INTERN SELECTION FEEDBACK --This section is designed to characterize mentor perspectives on the intern selection process.
9. Please rate your agreement with the following statement: *
“The process for selecting our HPP intern was effective.”
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Strongly disagree

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Strongly agree

10. How could the selection process have been improved?

Go to On-boarding

--- ON-BOARDING --This section is designed to characterize mentor perceptions of the on-boarding process when
interns obtain a security clearance and are provided with computer access, a NOAA email
account, office orientation, etc.
11. Were you directly involved in the intern on-boarding process? *
○ Yes
Go to On-boarding Feedback
○ No
Go to Recruitment

--- ON-BOARDING FEEDBACK --This section is designed to characterize mentor perceptions of the on-boarding process when
interns obtain a security clearance and are provided with computer access, a NOAA email
account, office orientation, etc.
12. Please rate your agreement with the following statement: *
“The onboarding process went smoothly and made a good first-impression on HPP
interns.”

Strongly disagree

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o

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Strongly agree

13. Please provide any suggestions you have for improving the onboarding process.

Go to COVID-19 Reflections

--- COVID-19 REFLECTIONS --14. Please rate your agreement with the following statement: *
“Based on my experience as a mentor this summer, remote internships were an effective
alternative to in-person internships.”

Strongly disagree

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o

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Strongly agree

15. Please rate your agreement with the following statement: *
"NOAA should consider providing remote internship opportunities in the future, even
when in-person opportunities are available."

Strongly disagree

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o

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Strongly agree

16. Please provide your overall reflections about your mentoring an intern remotely
during the COVID-19 pandemic. *

Go to Intern Contribution
--- INTERN CONTRIBUTION --In this section, we are seeking information that will help characterize the mentor work
experience. HPP interns are college freshmen who may be less experienced than interns in
other NOAA programs. Further, HPP is a shorter program (4-6 weeks) than other NOAA
internship programs. Your responses to the following questions will help us characterize the
necessary level of commitment by HPP mentors so that future mentors can calibrate their
expectations for interns to add value to their work relative to other NOAA internship programs.
17. Please rate your agreement with the following statement:
“Mentoring an HPP intern added value to my work..”

Strongly disagree

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Strongly agree

18. In what ways has your mentorship role positively or negatively affected your
work?

Go to Mentor Support
--- MENTOR SUPPORT --Your responses to the questions in this section will help the Office of Education assess and
improve the administrative support provided to mentors.
19. Please rate your agreement with the following statement: *
“I received strong administrative support from the Office of Education..”

Strongly disagree

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Strongly agree

20. How could the Office of Education better support HPP mentors?

Go to Final Reflections
--- FINAL REFLECTIONS --21. Please rate your agreement with the following statement: *
“I would either mentor an HPP intern in the future or recommend the experience to my NOAA
colleagues.”

Strongly disagree

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Strongly agree

22. Please describe any factors that influenced your rating of the previous statement.

23. Please provide any additional reflections on your experience with HPP that may
benefit future implementation of the program.

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