Describe the internship and rating scale. Makeform creates an intern evaluation form with competency scores, supporting comments, an overall assessment, and next steps.
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Audience
Supervisors reviewing office or operations interns
Format
Five-point ratings with evidence and summary
Prompt size
369 chars
Example form structure
Five-point ratings with evidence and summary
Intern, department, supervisor, and dates
Rate core performance competencies
Give a specific example for each rating
Strengths and development priorities
Overall performance and next-step status
Suggested routing tags
Ready to close
Follow-up needed
Future candidate
Pair each rating with a specific example that explains what the intern should repeat or improve.
Step 1
Identify
internship, supervisor, dates, and role
Step 2
Rate
observable competencies on one defined scale
Step 3
Explain
examples, strengths, and growth priorities
Step 4
Discuss
share feedback and record next steps
A fairer final review
Assess the same job-relevant behaviors, support ratings with examples, and prepare for a practical final conversation.
Define reliability, initiative, communication, and quality before scoring begins.
Pair each scale with a comment about an observed behavior, project, or result.
Bring strengths, priorities, goal progress, and next steps into one review.
Fit the placement
Keep a shared core, then add criteria tied to assignments and learning objectives.
Combine workplace competencies with role-specific questions for each department.
Evaluate problem solving, testing, documentation, collaboration, and guidance required.
Review research, audience judgment, accuracy, brand alignment, deadlines, and feedback.
Connect observations to learning outcomes, completed hours, and required competencies.
Build the evaluation
Generate a structured form, then adjust its rubric around directly observed work.
Name the department, assignments, learning goals, review timing, and reviewer.
Keep observable criteria, define anchors, add not observed, and request evidence.
Share it near the end while assignments and coaching moments remain fresh.
Discuss strengths, priorities, examples, and next steps with the intern.
Choose a review method
The useful evaluation is not the longest one. It is the method that connects consistent ratings to the actual work and leaves room for specific feedback.
Field guide
Use these six sections to move from review context through evidence and next steps.
Review context
Record the internship before asking for scores. This anchors the review to a defined role, period, and supervisor.
Rating scale
Label the scale from needs development through exceeds expectations, and add not observed so supervisors do not guess.
Work habits
Judge core behaviors through observable actions. Focus on how the intern approached commitments and colleagues, not personality labels.
Role outcomes
Add criteria for real outputs. A technical project, campaign, or research assignment needs evidence specific to that work.
Written evidence
Request an example near each competency group, especially for notably low or high ratings.
Overall closeout
Summarize overall performance, then record the disposition relevant to your program using specific options.
Related tools
Pair the final supervisor review with application, employee evaluation, self-evaluation, feedback, and performance-review forms already available in Makeform.
Adapt a broader employee rubric when the internship closely resembles an entry-level role.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for supervisors, internship coordinators, and HR teams preparing an end-of-placement review.
It is a structured supervisor review, usually completed near the internship's end. It records placement context, ratings, examples, strengths, development priorities, and an overall assessment for the closing conversation.
Include the intern, supervisor, role, and dates; an anchored scale; core and role-specific criteria; examples; strengths; development priorities; an overall assessment; and discussion confirmation.
A five-point scale works when each point has a behavioral label, from needs development through exceeds expectations. Add not observed so supervisors do not score behavior they did not see.
Place an evidence prompt after each competency group. Ask for the situation, action, and result, plus a strongest contribution and one practical next step.
Many teams use it as the agenda for a final discussion. Follow your organization's process and any school requirements, then record the discussion date and agreed next steps.
Yes. Keep common workplace behaviors, then add assignment outcomes. Technical criteria may cover testing and documentation; marketing criteria may cover audience judgment and accuracy. Remove anything the supervisor could not observe.
Yes. Makeform offers unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect evaluations for free. The paid tier only removes the Makeform badge.
Send it after the supervisor has observed meaningful work but early enough to discuss before the final day. For longer placements, add a midpoint review so the intern can act on feedback.
End the internship with feedback the intern can use.
