Download or read book The Perceptions of Peer Mentors and Mentees about the Process and Impact of Peer Mentoring written by Katrina Graham Short and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mentorship is a catalyst capable of unleashing one's potential for discovery, curiosity, and participation in STEMM and subsequently improving the training environment in which that STEMM potential is fostered. Mentoring relationships provide developmental spaces in which students' STEMM skills are honed and pathways into STEMM fields can be discovered. Because mentorship can be so influential in shaping the future STEMM workforce, its occurrence should not be left to chance or idiosyncratic implementation. There is a gap between what we know about effective mentoring and how it is practiced in higher education. The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM studies mentoring programs and practices at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It explores the importance of mentorship, the science of mentoring relationships, mentorship of underrepresented students in STEMM, mentorship structures and behaviors, and institutional cultures that support mentorship. This report and its complementary interactive guide present insights on effective programs and practices that can be adopted and adapted by institutions, departments, and individual faculty members.
Download or read book Perceptions of Peer Mentorship Within Living Learning Communities written by Nicole Marie Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living-learning communities (LLC) are seen as a way to help promote student engagement and retention using best practices in higher education (Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education, 2014). Resident Assistants (RA), also known as resident advisors, and LLC peer mentors are members of a residential community in college who are employed to help provide a sense of community among residents on their floor or in their building (Rieske & Benjamin, 2015). Previous research (Wyile, 2012) on LLC peer mentor interactions provided examples of how peer mentors could enhance a community within a college LLC. This qualitative study will explore LLC residents' perceptions of peer mentorship. I will focus on first-year resident interactions with their RA, in comparison to their LLC peer mentor. I will analyze the influence of the LLC peer mentor and RA on student's experiences within an LLC using environmental frameworks. Analyzing student perceptions on peer mentorship interactions, both RAs and peer mentors, within an LLC may help determine the necessity of a peer-mentoring program within the construction of an LLC. Keywords: living-learning community, peer mentoring, student perceptions, academic performance, satisfaction
Download or read book Perceptions and Expectations of College Students Choosing to Become Peer Mentors written by Matthew Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peer mentoring programs are a popular means of supporting students in transition in higher education. The success of these programs is based on the students who decide to become peer mentors. Further, institutions often have a variety of peer mentoring programs on their campuses that create varying experiences. The intent on this study was to identify best practices for recruiting peer mentors. The study utilized a quantitative instrument designed to reflect what previous literature suggested had been the positive outcomes of peer mentoring. A total of 110 student leaders at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville participated in the study, representing 11 peer mentoring roles. Levels of influence were measured for 13 different factors hypothesized to affect a student's decision to become a peer mentor. The results of the study suggested that the factors: helping fellow students, enhance leadership skills, and improve communication skills were most influential to college students choosing to become peer mentors. Additionally, it was found that different peer mentoring roles are influenced by factors at varying levels. Recommendations are provided to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of peer mentor recruitment campaigns. Recommendations include: creating a common marketing strategy for recruiting peer mentors at individual institutions, adjusting marketing strategies to recruit diverse peer mentors, intentionally recruiting to students who are mentees within a peer mentoring program, and developing a common recruitment timeline amongst peer mentoring roles at individual institutions.
Download or read book Community College Students Perceptions of the Effects of Peer Mentoring on Their Sense of Belonging written by Bryan Keith Sullins and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community college students are less likely to complete their educational objectives than are students who attend 4-year institutions. Students who opt out of the recommended remedial coursework in the foundational subjects of reading, writing, and math may be further disadvantaged when attempting college level coursework. As one way to reduce this disadvantage, peer mentoring’s positive influence on retention, student development, and success in college is well-documented in higher education literature. Additionally, an increasing number of research articles espouse students’ sense of belonging as a critical factor in these same areas. What the extant literature fails to closely examine are the ways in which peer mentoring influences the two dimensions of sense of belonging in college--peer belonging and institutional attachment. This is a descriptive study designed to explore students' perceptions and experiences surrounding the ways in which the peer mentor relationships affected their sense of belonging in college. Using exemplar methodology, I selected mentees who exhibited at least one of the criteria of well-mentored students--students who were mentored in accordance with the college's QEP requirements. The findings in this study suggest sense of belonging was affected by peer mentor interventions. Semi-structured interviews with the well-mentored students in this study suggest when peer mentors behaved in accordance with the exemplar criteria, sense of belonging was improved. With few exceptions, all three participants credited their peer mentors with having influenced their sense of belonging. This study sheds light on the underexplored association between peer mentoring and sense of belonging. The findings in this study suggest peer mentoring is an effective strategy to influence sense of belonging in the areas of connectedness, engagement, and transition. Peer mentors serve as facilitators of sense of belonging when they bridge academic and social aspects of college life for students whom they mentor. The experience gained in this study may be informative to the design, evaluation, or redesign of peer mentor programs at other higher education institutions.
Download or read book Handbook of Youth Mentoring written by David L. DuBois and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly updated Second Edition of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring presents the only comprehensive synthesis of current theory, research, and practice in the field of youth mentoring. Editors David L. DuBois and Michael J. Karcher gather leading experts in the field to offer critical and informative analyses of the full spectrum of topics that are essential to advancing our understanding of the principles for effective mentoring of young people. This volume includes twenty new chapter topics and eighteen completely revised chapters based on the latest research on these topics. Each chapter has been reviewed by leading practitioners, making this handbook the strongest bridge between research and practice available in the field of youth mentoring.
Download or read book Improving Higher Education Environments for Adults written by Nancy K. Schlossberg and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1989-01-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving Higher Education Environments for Adults uses numerous real-life vignettes to examine the changing needs of adult learners as they move through the higher education system, and it suggests ways student development professionals and other educators can make higher education more responsive to these needs.
Download or read book Applications of Self Regulated Learning across Diverse Disciplines written by Héfer Bembenutty and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its research-to-practice focus, this book honors the professional contributions of Professor Barry J. Zimmerman as illustrated by the recent selfregulation applications of a highly respected group of national and international scholars. This book will serve as a valuable resource for those interested in empowering and enabling learners to successfully manage and self-direct their lives, education, and careers. In particular, K-12 educators, college instructors, coaches, musicians, health care providers, and researchers will gain invaluable insight into the nature of self-regulation as well as how they can readily apply self-regulation principles into their teaching, instruction, or mentoring. Emergent trends in education and psychology circles, such as linking selfregulated learning assessment and interventions as well as the use of technology to enhance student learning and self-regulation, are additional themes addressed in the book. The kaleidoscope of self-regulation issues addressed in this book along with the wide range of promising intervention applications should also prove to be particularly appealing to graduate students as they pursue their future research activities and seek to optimize their individual growth and development.
Download or read book Developing Effective Student Peer Mentoring Programs written by Peter J. Collier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when college completion is a major issue, and there is particular concern about the retention of underserved student populations, peer mentoring programs offer one solution to promoting student success. This is a comprehensive resource for creating, refining and sustaining effective student peer mentoring programs. While providing a blueprint for successfully designing programs for a wide range of audiences – from freshmen to doctoral students – it also offers specific guidance on developing programs targeting three large groups of under-served students: first-generation students, international students and student veterans.This guidebook is divided into two main sections. The opening section begins by reviewing the issue of degree non-completion, as well as college adjustment challenges that all students and those in each of the targeted groups face. Subsequent chapters in section one explore models of traditional and non-traditional student transition, persistence and belonging, address what peer mentoring can realistically achieve, and present a rubric for categorizing college student peer-mentoring programs. The final chapter in section one provides a detailed framework for assessing students’ adjustment issues to determine which ones peer mentoring programs can appropriately address. Section two of the guidebook shifts from the theoretical to the practical by covering the nuts and bolts of developing a college student peer-mentoring program. The initial chapter in section two covers a range of design issues including establishing a program timeline, developing a budget, securing funding, getting commitments from stakeholders, hiring staff, recruiting mentors and mentees, and developing policies and procedures. Subsequent chapters analyze the strengths and limitations of different program delivery options, from paired and group face-to-face mentoring to their e-mentoring equivalents; offer guidance on the creation of program content and resources for mentors and mentees, and provide mentor training exercises and curricular guidelines. Section two concludes by outlining processes for evaluating programs, including setting goals, collecting appropriate data, and methods of analysis; and by offering advice on sustaining and institutionalizing programs. Each chapter opens with a case study illustrating its principal points. This book is primarily intended as a resource for student affairs professionals and program coordinators who are developing new peer-mentoring programs or considering refining existing ones. It may also serve as a text in courses designed to train future peer mentors and leaders.
Download or read book Perceptions of First year College Students written by Dyan Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost half of the students who begin college are not retained at the institution in which they began. The purpose of this research was to explore the perceptions of first-year college students and the impact peer mentoring has on student success. This quantitative study utilized the College Student Mentoring Scale to measure perceptions of first-year students. The survey questions students on interrelated constructs which are, Psychological and Emotional Support, Degree and Career Support, Academic Subject Knowledge Support and The Existence of a Role Model. The research found that gender and academic background are factors that impact first-year students’ perceptions of a peer mentoring. Additional findings indicated that response levels were highest for the areas of Academic Subject Knowledge Support and The Existence of a Role Model. It is the intention that this study will add to the limited existent research on peer mentoring in higher education. Also, it will assist in future policies and practices by providing a foundation of the components that influence first-year student success through improving effectiveness of peer mentoring programs.
Download or read book Near peer Mentors and Developmental Math written by Jesse L. Knepper and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine the impact of near-peer mentors on perceptions of sense of belonging and integration into the campus community among first year freshmen students in developmental math. Throughout the course of this inquiry it will also provide insight into the growth of the peer mentors, as it pertains to sense of belonging and integration to the campus community, resulting from their experience as near-peer mentors. This study was born out of a pilot launch of a near-peer mentor program for students in developmental math at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and the desire to understand the impact that this program had on the socialization of students. Specifically, this study sought answers to the following research questions: 1) how has the near-peer mentor program in developmental math impacted student perceptions on their sense of belonging to the campus community? And 2) how has the near-peer mentor program in developmental math impacted student perceptions on their integration into the campus community? At the time of this study, limited information existed on the impact of peer mentors on first-year college students enrolled in developmental math. Utilizing interviews of both mentors and students, along with document review, this qualitative study found that near-peer mentors can, through the developmental of social bonds with students, positively impact perceptions of sense of belonging among first year students in developmental math. Self-efficacy, motivation, social bonds, and connections to campus resources were identified as recurring themes of discussion in interview responses among mentors and students concerning sense of belonging and integration. Furthermore, students were able to identify with their near-peer mentors and looked to them as role models. This connection helped foster the use of campus resources, thus impacting a greater feeling of integration to the campus community. Near-peer mentors also felt a greater sense of belonging and greater connection to the campus as a result of their participation in the program. The findings of this study are significant as they demonstrate that peer mentor programs can be used as an effective strategy for addressing sense of belonging and helping students feel better connected to the campus community. The CSU has affirmed its ongoing commitment to fostering sense of belonging among students and supporting student needs through the connection to campus resources (Graduation Initiative 2025, n.d.). This study may inform other campuses of the impact of near-peer mentors as they look to implement similar programs that align with the Graduation Initiative 2025 objectives.
Download or read book The Perceived Effectiveness of a Peer mentoring Program and Peer Mentors Influence on First year Student Adjustment written by Amy Jo Gershon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perceived Impacts of Peer Mentoring in an Occupational Therapy Program written by Kate Buzo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peer mentoring can occur at many levels in a person's life and is an important part of graduate education. Mentors provide guidance, challenges, exposure, acceptance, confirmation, and coaching to their graduate students, and can have a great impact on a student's perception of the quality of their graduate experience. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the psychosocial impact of a mentor-mentee program on graduate occupational therapy students in the areas of stress levels, time-management skills, and communication and interpersonal communication skills, as perceived by mentees. The study consisted of in-depth qualitative interviews with four mentees from the program. Each participant reported diverse experiences regarding the impact of the peer mentoring program on stress levels, time management, and communication skills. The researchers recommend future research look at the impacts of gender, structure of the program, and prior mentor-mentee relationships on the outcomes of the mentoring program." -- From page 1.
Download or read book Peer Mentors Influence on School Belonging and 21st Century Learning Skills written by Hannah D. Dill and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some schools today there are students who do not feel a sense of belonging in their environment. This is a problem because when students do not feel a sense of belonging, their grades, attendance, behavior, and social-emotional well-being may be diminished (Roche & Kuperminc, 2012). In addition to policy and culture reforms, specific programs designed to increase students' connection to the school may help increase students' sense of belonging. The purpose of this case study was to assess the effect of peer mentorship on students' sense of belonging and 21st century skills. Peer mentorship programs vary widely, but regardless of their specific format the mentor-mentee relationship is characterized by trust, mutuality, and empathy (Rhodes et al., 2005). This qualitative case study explored questions regarding how mentors and mentees perceive the influence of the peer mentorship program on their sense of belongingness, and 21st century skill development. Student mentees and mentors provided reflections in a focus group, while one of the program advisors, the middle school's adult supervisor, was interviewed to gather data on perceptions of the influence of the program. The study found that both the mentors and mentees increased their sense of belonging as well as developed various 21st century skills. This qualitative case study can help support pK-12 institutions who are trying to close the opportunity gap by supporting students within their community. Future studies are needed to support best practices for peer mentor programs between different grade levels.
Download or read book Mentoring written by Michael I. Keel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the importance of mentoring relationships. Mentoring is important to individual career development. Thus, the potential benefits of mentoring on a professional scale are addressed, regardless of career stage. Findings from a constructivist grounded theory study, that examined rural nurses' experiences of mentoring, is presented in this book. Multicultural models of mentoring relationships are also examined, which are necessary given the changing demographics of our society. Recommendations for developing positive multicultural mentoring relationships and future directions in research and training are looked at as well. Furthermore, mid-career is the most appropriate period for taking on mentoring responsibilities. Thus, a conceptual analysis of the relationships between the mentor's career stage and the mentoring process are analysed. This book also describes the attitudes, characteristics, and practices of effective mentoring of student teachers on students as well as the effect peer-mentoring has on disabled persons. Future directions of peer-mentoring and disability are addressed as well.
Download or read book Mentorability written by Victoria Gandaría Black and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education institutions have emphasized retention as one of the measurable outcomes linked with institutional performance, state and federal funding appropriations, and publicized rankings (Hagedorn, 2012). Therefore, higher education institutions intentionally have become more focused on providing a robust first-year college experience, including high-impact practices intended to help with adjustment, transition, and retention of students during their first year. One high-impact practice is a formal mentoring program focused on relationship building, positive peer support, and social guidance (Kuh, Cruce, Shoup, Kinzie, & Gonyea, 2008; Kuh, Kinzie, Buckley, Bridges & Hayek, 2006). More specifically, peer mentoring is an important component of a student’s first year and undergraduate experience (Crisp & Cruz, 2009; Crisp et al., 2017; Gershenfeld, 2014; Jacobi, 1991; Miller, 2004). Mentorability is a term that conceptualizes mentees’ ability to engage in a mutually beneficial and developmental relationship (Reddick, 2014). It focuses on mentees understanding of their role and responsibilities engaging in the relationship. This study employed a phenomenological approach in examining how 17 mentees described their lived experiences of and how they perceived their ability to commit, contribute, and engage in a peer mentoring partnership in a formal mentoring program at an Hispanic Serving Institution. The key findings of the study demonstrated: (1) mentorability as a process: from unclear expectations to viewing a mentor as a lifeline for success; (2) mentees as information seekers and mentors as influential contributors; and (3) communication and open-mindedness as key mentee contributions, trust as a gatekeeper for relationship formation, and mentorability as multi-level of exchange including understanding a mentee’s role extends beyond the reciprocity with the mentor to other peers. Drawing from three social science theories, this study introduces a mentorability conceptual model for practice derived from findings from the study (Astin, 1993; Lin, 2001; Cropanzano et al., 2017). Additional findings, and implications for future research, practice, and theory are discussed
Download or read book The Impact of Peer Mentoring in UK Higher Education written by Rosalyn May Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
