SGER: Students' Perceptions of Value and Need for Mentors As They Progress Through Academic Studies in Engineering and Science

SGER：学生在工程和科学学术研究中取得进步时对导师的价值和需求的看法

• 批准号: 0639762
• 负责人: Carol Muller
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: MentorNet
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-15 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Students; Perceptions; Value; Need

This is a Small Grant for Exploratory Research award to MentorNet research students' perceptions of the value and need for mentors as they progress through their academic studies in engineering and science. Intellectual Merit: In focusing on student perceptions about mentoring, this project represents preliminary work on untested ideas that are novel in being outside the mainstream of research in engineering education in focusing on student perceptions of a co-curricular activity related to their academic studies and career plans. We propose to work with an advisory group of other researchers on this project to shape and implement a study which will provide information useful for both understanding student perceptions and communicating to students effectively information about opportunities available to them to meet their needs.Mentoring has been identified as a very important component of students' learning experiences, and in many cases, essential to retention, particularly for women and students of color, but is not part of the usual focus of curricular design, and classroom learning. To confound efforts to understand the role and potential effectiveness of mentoring, in an effort to tap into its benefits to student learning and retention, the term is frequently left undefined in context. So to prescribe mentoring as a solution for a problem leaves educators uncertain about what aspects of a mentoring relationship are important to replicate in order to gain its positive benefits for retention. Thus, through this exploratory research project, we will to learn more about students' perceptions of the value and need for mentors, and particularly how these perceptions might vary depending upon the student's year in school, or other factors such as gender, ethnicity, age, type of institution, etc.

这是一个探索性研究的小额赠款奖，以指导研究学生的价值和需要的导师的看法，因为他们通过他们的工程和科学的学术研究进展。智力优势：在专注于学生对指导的看法，这个项目代表了初步的工作，未经测试的想法，是新颖的主流之外的研究，工程教育，专注于学生的看法，课外活动有关他们的学术研究和职业规划。我们建议与一个由其他研究人员组成的咨询小组合作，共同制定和实施一项研究，该研究将提供有用的信息，以了解学生的看法，并有效地向学生传达满足他们需求的机会。指导已被确定为学生学习经历的一个非常重要的组成部分，在许多情况下，对保留学生至关重要，特别是对妇女和有色人种学生，但不是课程设计和课堂学习的通常重点。为了混淆理解辅导的作用和潜在有效性的努力，为了挖掘其对学生学习和保留的好处，这个词经常在上下文中没有定义。 因此，将指导作为解决问题的办法，会让教育工作者不确定指导关系的哪些方面是重要的，以便复制，以获得其对保留的积极好处。因此，通过这项探索性的研究项目，我们将更多地了解学生对导师的价值和需求的看法，特别是这些看法如何根据学生在学校的年份或其他因素，如性别，种族，年龄，机构类型等而变化。