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  • Mentor's view of the observation process in Oregon's beginning teacher support program

    Creator:
    Hamlin, Karen DeShon
    Abstract:
    Mentor teachers are currently seen as a solution to education's dilemma of how to orient beginners into the profession and provide educational advancement for its most capable, experienced teachers. One goal of Oregon's mentor program is to have mentors provide their proteges with instructional assistance through an observation process. The...
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    Dissertation
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Education presented on October 3, 1990. Title: Mentors' View of the Observation

  • Significant mentoring relationships in ministerial education

    Creator:
    Wiggins, Robert W.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study was to describe and explain significant mentor/protege relationships in professional ministry education. Through an exploratory, naturalistic inquiry, the mentoring phenomenon was studied inductively, culminating in a descriptive theory that illuminated the variables and their interrelationships on the ministerial campus. The multiple case study design accommodated...
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    Dissertation
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    Education presented on April 22, 1994. Title: Significant Mentoring Relationships in Ministerial Education

  • Mentor training : feasibility of a web-based program to train mentors of distance dietetic management graduate students

    Creator:
    Curtis, Suzanne Render
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    The purpose of this research was to evaluate a web-based training program for mentors of distance graduate students enrolled in a distance Master of Science Dietetic Management Program. The online training program was designed to consist of four modules focusing on mentoring skills, communication, research methods and university mandated guidelines...
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    Dissertation
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    directory to ascertain if mentoring programs were being used in dietetic education programs. Nearly half

  • Mentoring student leaders of color

    Creator:
    White, Leann E.
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    Involvement in student leadership provides opportunities for student development (Foubert and Grainger, 2006) and is linked with higher rates of persistence (Astin, 1984), making leadership programs an important tool for increasing the retention and success of students of color. Unfortunately, traditional leadership paradigms often used in student leadership programs are...
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    Masters Thesis
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    world of academia (Jacobi, 1991). Overall, interest in mentoring in higher education has increased in

  • The effect of selected educational strategies on the success of secondary at-risk students

    Creator:
    Yann, Judith A.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study was to determine if certain identified educational strategies would have an effect on the success of at-risk students at the secondary level. Specifically, would school involvement and a mentor program have an effect on students' attendance, grade point average, and self-esteem. An examination of related...
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    Dissertation
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    of Education in the State of Oregon does not have specific guidelines for recognizing the at-risk

  • Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
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    John Archibald Wheeler (09 July 1911- ) is a familiar name to physicists and historians of physics alike. Among his many contributions to the corpus of knowledge, in 1939 John Wheeler and Niels Bohr co-authored the first paper on the generalized mechanism of nuclear fission. Beyond that seminal work, Wheeler...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Until quite recently, studies of mentoring in science were limited to 'laboratory' and/or 'field

  • The lived experience of women student mentors

    Creator:
    Rennick, Vikki
    Abstract:
    This is a phenomenological research study of the lived experience of women student mentors at one community college located in an urban setting on the West Coast. The study participants were women students who served as mentors to other women at the community college who are participants in a returning...
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    Dissertation
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    perceptions regarding mentoring relationships in higher education fields proposed "further qualitative and

  • Research mentorship in counselor education

    Creator:
    Briggs, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Ann)
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    Research mentorship is a new construct emerging in the literature, but remains inadequately defined and scarcely researched. This topic is of relevance to counselor education because of the paucity of literature on the topic, and because of our professional commitments to diversity, wellness, and scholarship. Effective mentorship has been shown...
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    Dissertation

  • A study of peer collaborative mentoring for the professional development of international graduate teaching assistants

    Creator:
    Kilburg, Gary M.
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    The purpose of this study was to investigate Peer Collaborative Mentoring (PCM) as a professional development model for international graduate teaching assistants at an American university. Data were gathered from interviews and observations of three American peer mentors (Intracultural Peer Mentors/IAPMs), five Chinese Graduate Teaching Assistants (Intercultural Peer Mentors/IEPMs), and...
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    Dissertation
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    Universities Providing Professional Development in Higher Education 35 through Mentoring, Peer Assistance and

  • Prevalence and sources of mentoring relationships experienced by female undergraduate merchandising management students

    Creator:
    Durand, Elizabeth Victoria
    Abstract:
    Previous research suggests that little is known about female mentoring relationships, particularly among undergraduate students. The purpose of the present study was to investigate mentoring relationships experienced by female undergraduate merchandising management students. The investigation included the overall prevalence of mentoring experiences, the specific kinds of mentor roles, the prevalent...
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    Masters Thesis
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    sources of mentoring; and (3) demographic and exploratory items in order to provide direction for