Direct Ties to a Faculty Mentor Related to Positive Outcomes for Undergraduate Researchers.

ABSTRACT: Mentored research is critical for integrating undergraduates into the scientific community. Undergraduate researchers experience a variety of mentoring structures, including dyads (i.e., direct mentorship by faculty) and triads (i.e., mentorship by graduate or postdoctoral researchers [postgraduates] and faculty). Social capital theory suggests that these structures may offer different resources that differentially benefit undergraduates. To test this, we collected data from a national sample of more than 1,000 undergraduate life science researchers and used structural equation modeling to identify relationships between mentoring structures and indicators of integration into the scientific community. Undergraduates in dyads and triads with direct faculty interactions reported similar level

SUBMITTER: Joshi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6506343 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature