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Novice Teachers Perceptions Of Prior Mentoring Experiences, Gloria Freels Mcelroy
Novice Teachers Perceptions Of Prior Mentoring Experiences, Gloria Freels Mcelroy
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More than 50% of novice educators leave the profession in the first 5 years of service. Novice educators were defined as educators with 5 or fewer years of teaching experience. The State of Tennessee has estimated the cost for that decision to around $28,000.00 per teacher for each local educational authority. Many researchers believe mentoring increases novice satisfaction in the classroom. Even though many enter the field of education, Freedman and Appleman (2009) found that teachers leave the profession in rates higher than other professions. Ingersoll and Merrill (2010) showed the annual turnover rate for teachers was higher than for …
Combating The Sophomore Slump Through Peer-Mentoring Among African American Students At Predominantly White Institutions., Tiffany Christina Evans
Combating The Sophomore Slump Through Peer-Mentoring Among African American Students At Predominantly White Institutions., Tiffany Christina Evans
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There is a plethora of research regarding the first year undergraduate student experience; however, 2nd year students are facing adversity and consequently high rates of attrition. This phenomenon is known as the sophomore slump. There is limited research of how the sophomore slump impacts African Americans and research supports involvement, particularly as a peer mentor, increases student persistence beyond the 2nd year. This study uses Tinto's theory of student departure and Collin's theory of other-mothering to explore how the academic and social skills of CONECT peer mentors contribute to their experiences as peer mentors and their overall persistence.
The R Factor: Centering Race In The Mentoring Of African American College Students, Bridgette Coble
The R Factor: Centering Race In The Mentoring Of African American College Students, Bridgette Coble
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Mentoring provides personal support, academic assistance and career guidance to college students of color whose experiences have been documented to be very different from those of their White counterparts. Achievement inequity, problems of persistence, experiences of racism and student reports of feeling marginalized and misunderstood threaten the ability of students of color to succeed in college. While it may be assumed that race plays a central role in the mentoring relationships of students of color, this assumption may be misguided. The existence of formal mentoring programs and informal mentoring relationships that support students of color does not necessarily ensure that …
Mentoring Of Nurse Managers The Experience Of New Nurse Managers In Rural Hospitals : Does Mentoring Make A Difference?, Leigh Lindsey 1972-
Mentoring Of Nurse Managers The Experience Of New Nurse Managers In Rural Hospitals : Does Mentoring Make A Difference?, Leigh Lindsey 1972-
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The aim of this study was to examine rural nurse managers' experiences with mentoring once assuming their new management role. This research study used qualitative methods to examine mentoring experiences in relatively new and inexperienced nurse managers in the rural setting. Social Learning Theory was used as the theoretical framework, and the conceptual framework consisted of Stewart and Krueger's (1996) concept analysis ofmentoring in nursing. Stewart and Krueger's concept analysis identified the following six essential attributes of mentoring in nursing: a teaching-learning process, a reciprocal role, a career development relationship, a knowledge or competence differential between participants, a duration of …
New Teacher Development In An Urban District : A Mixed-Method Study Of A New Teacher Induction Institute As Professional Development., Vicki Johnson-Leuze
New Teacher Development In An Urban District : A Mixed-Method Study Of A New Teacher Induction Institute As Professional Development., Vicki Johnson-Leuze
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Experts attribute the teacher shortage to an increase in population while others cite the retirement of a critical mass of baby boomers who came into teaching in the mid to late twentieth century. Other experts argue that the teaching shortage is due to attrition of teachers new to the field. Job dissatisfaction, disillusionment, poor working conditions, low pay and lack of respect are cited in research as reasons for an exodus from teaching. Numerous reasons have contributed to teachers leaving the field in alarming numbers, resulting in not enough pre-service teachers in supply to fill the current demand for teaching. …
The Relationship Between Mentoring And Social Status At Work: A Social Network Status Study, Lakeesha A. Flowers
The Relationship Between Mentoring And Social Status At Work: A Social Network Status Study, Lakeesha A. Flowers
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Mentoring is an important means of developing talent. Typically, mentoring involves two individuals – a mentor, who provides career development and psychosocial support to a less experienced counterpart (the protégé). Because mentoring is related to several desired outcomes such as career advancement, and job satisfaction, it is important to understand which individual characteristics are important to obtaining or providing effective mentoring. It is also necessary to examine potential but unconfirmed outcomes of mentoring such as social network status. This study examined the relationships between several individual characteristics, namely social intelligence and emotional intelligence, and mentoring relationships. In addition, this study …
The Governor's Commission On Training America's Teachers: Response From Pennsylvania's Secondary School Principals, Denise A Morelli
The Governor's Commission On Training America's Teachers: Response From Pennsylvania's Secondary School Principals, Denise A Morelli
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This study examines the perceptions of secondary school principals in Pennsylvania with respect to teacher preparation. A review of recent education literature clearly supports the understanding that there is a national concern regarding student achievement and its importance in assuring that the United States can maintain its current position of a leading industrial nation. Extensive research has clearly indicated that principals play a vital role in student achievement as a whole and in their buildings in particular. As the needs for education have changed, this role has become even more crucial in recent years. Given the importance of principals in …
Beauty And The Beast: The Attractiveness Bias In An Online Peer Mentoring Program, Carollaine Garcia
Beauty And The Beast: The Attractiveness Bias In An Online Peer Mentoring Program, Carollaine Garcia
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The bias against attractiveness is fairly implicit and furthermore, powerfully impacts people’s subsequent impressions of and behaviors toward others (Cash, Gillen, & Burns, 1977; Dion et al., 1972). Pallet, Link and Lee (2010) examined the effect of various facial spatial configurations on attractiveness and found that raters rated faces as most attractive when the eyeto-mouth ratio approximated 36% of the face length (the "golden ratio"), which coincides with the measurements of an average and thus more attractive face. The present study examined the extent to which the distance of these objectively measured facial features affected mentors’ perceptions of their protégés, …
Are You My Profession?: Mentoring, Organizational Citizenship, And Professional Identity, Julia M. Fullick
Are You My Profession?: Mentoring, Organizational Citizenship, And Professional Identity, Julia M. Fullick
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The purpose of the current study was to investigate the influence that academic major advisors and informal mentors can have on an individual's identification with a professional organization and their ensuing level of involvement in that professional organization. The present study is unique in that it is among the few to examine mentoring and OCBs in the context of a voluntary professional organization. Participants were 309 individuals with a doctoral degree who are members of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), a large professional organization with 7,847 total members (in 2011). The specific type of OCB investigated in …
A Comparative Investigation Of Career Readiness And Decidedness In First Year Stem Majoring Students Participating In A Stem Mentoring Program Imbedded In A Living-Learning Community With Focused Data On Female Stem Students, Nirmala Ramlakhan
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Female mentoring success was investigated as an undergraduate intervention utilizing career development practices to reduce dysfunctional career thinking and STEM major retention in first year freshmen females within a living-learning community. Repeated measures MANOVAs and canonical correlations in the causal comparative research design evaluated mentoring’s influence on first year females. Male voluntary participants (n = 126) formulated the comparison group, and female voluntary participants (n = 75) filled the treatment group. Repeated measure multivariate analyses of variances compared differences between the interaction of mentoring and gender over time on dysfunctional career thinking using two assessments: Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI) and …