Mentorship for Transfer Student Success in STEM Research: Mentor Approaches and Reflections.

ABSTRACT: Mentorship has been widely recognized as an effective means to promote student learning and engagement in undergraduate research experiences. However, little work exists for understanding different mentors' perceived approaches to mentorship, including mentorship of students from backgrounds and educational trajectories not well represented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Transfer students, in particular, face unique trajectories in their pursuit of research opportunities, yet few studies investigate how mentors describe their approaches to supporting these students. Using semistructured interviews, this study examines how mentors approach mentoring students from diverse backgrounds as research trainees, with an emphasis on transfer students. First, using pheno

SUBMITTER: Zuckerman AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11235116 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature