Outcome Assessment of Mentorship Program Export

@article{citeulike:5474776, abstract = {This paper reports results of a survey that studied the outcomes of a mentorship program. Students enrolled in a core course for the MA and certificate in gerontology programs were required to select either a long-term care service, a program in aging, or an agency providing services for senior adults, where they could spend a day interacting with a mentor. A wide range of sites were available and students could select one site for 8 hours or two sites for 4 hours each. The researchers were interested in assessing both the opinions of the students who participated and of the mentors themselves about this educational experience. A survey that had a series of open-ended and close-ended questions was administered to all graduate students who participated as well as to the mentors at their various sites. This paper discusses the implications of this program as a model for other gerontology programs. It delineates mentor and student suggestions about the strengths and weaknesses of the current set-up of the mentorship program. Suggestions are made for further study of this pedagogical tool.}, author = {Johnson, Christopher J. and Bulot, Jay and Johnson, Roxanna H.}, citeulike-article-id = {5474776}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03601270701869303}, doi = {10.1080/03601270701869303}, journal = {Educational Gerontology}, keywords = {barriers, mentoring}, number = {7}, pages = {555--569}, posted-at = {2009-08-19 00:35:37}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Routledge}, title = {Outcome Assessment of Mentorship Program}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03601270701869303}, volume = {34}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5474776 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5474776 N2 - This paper reports results of a survey that studied the outcomes of a mentorship program. Students enrolled in a core course for the MA and certificate in gerontology programs were required to select either a long-term care service, a program in aging, or an agency providing services for senior adults, where they could spend a day interacting with a mentor. A wide range of sites were available and students could select one site for 8 hours or two sites for 4 hours each. The researchers were interested in assessing both the opinions of the students who participated and of the mentors themselves about this educational experience. A survey that had a series of open-ended and close-ended questions was administered to all graduate students who participated as well as to the mentors at their various sites. This paper discusses the implications of this program as a model for other gerontology programs. It delineates mentor and student suggestions about the strengths and weaknesses of the current set-up of the mentorship program. Suggestions are made for further study of this pedagogical tool. IS - 7 JF - Educational Gerontology EP - 569 TI - Outcome Assessment of Mentorship Program PB - Routledge VL - 34 SP - 555 KW - barriers KW - mentoring AU - Johnson, Christopher AU - Bulot, Jay AU - Johnson, Roxanna PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03601270701869303 ER -