[PDF] Perceptions And Expectations Of College Students Choosing To Become Peer Mentors eBook

Author : Matthew Hicks
Publisher :
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Peer teaching
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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.

Author : Bryan Keith Sullins
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Community college students
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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.

Author : Dyan Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 2018
Category : College freshmen
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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.

Author : Peter J. Collier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 100097717X

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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.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309497299

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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.

Author : Louise Frith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1350315001

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Whatever stage of the peer mentoring journey your students are at, this engagingly-written book will help them to get the most out of their peer mentoring experience. It explains the role of peer mentors in universities and shows students exactly what's involved in providing academic and pastoral support to other students. The book also contains a helpful trouble-shooting chapter, packed with supportive guidance on dealing with challenging scenarios. The final chapters of the book prompt students to reflect on the skills they have developed through peer mentoring, and help them to articulate these skills to prospective employers. This book will be an essential companion for both aspiring and current student mentors, and an invaluable reference point for staff involved in facilitating peer mentoring schemes.

Author : Nancy K. Schlossberg
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 1989-01-30
Category : Education
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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.

Author : Peter John Collier
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2023
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 9781003444145

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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 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.

Author : Nicole Marie Nicholson
Publisher :
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2017
Category :
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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

Author : Alison Cook-Sather
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1118434587

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A guide to developing productive student-faculty partnerships in higher education Student-faculty partnerships is an innovation that is gaining traction on campuses across the country. There are few established models in this new endeavor, however. Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty offers administrators, faculty, and students both the theoretical grounding and practical guidelines needed to develop student-faculty partnerships that affirm and improve teaching and learning in higher education. Provides theory and evidence to support new efforts in student-faculty partnerships Describes various models for creating and supporting such partnerships Helps faculty overcome some of the perceived barriers to student-faculty partnerships Suggests a range of possible levels of partnership that might be appropriate in different circumstances Includes helpful responses to a range of questions as well as advice from faculty, students, and administrators who have hands-on experience with partnership programs Balancing theory, step-by-step guidelines, expert advice, and practitioner experience, this book is a comprehensive why- and how-to handbook for developing a successful student-faculty partnership program.