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The Effects Of Cross-Age Mentoring In An Online Collaborative Environment, Gail Lorraine Johnson
The Effects Of Cross-Age Mentoring In An Online Collaborative Environment, Gail Lorraine Johnson
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This mixed method research was designed to examine the effects of cross-age mentoring in an inter-institutional online learning community. The research questions focused on the impact of mentoring on high school students’ confidence in their information seeking skills, perceptions of their information seeking standards, and the application of these standards to an information seeking task. Also of interest was the dialogic interaction between the students at the two sites, the impact of the facilitator on the process, and the university students’ perceptions about their experience. The participants included 26 students (mentees) enrolled in an American history class at a rural …