Mentoring Experiences

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Methods - conceptual framework used For this study six individuals provided the answers to questions related to their respective mentoring experiences. The composition of the interviewees included three current faculty members and three current students, all in university settings in the southeast United States. Four of the interviews conducted in person, provided the researcher with the opportunity to observe body language and facial expressions communicated during the interview. Two of the interviews conducted via Skype tended to limit the researcher in terms of body language and facial expression. The essence of not being there with the interviewees proved unavoidable. Each initial interview lasted approximately four hours. The follow-up interviews lasted …show more content…

Essentially, this questionnaire was converted into a handwritten open-ended questionnaire to serve the purposes of this study. Additionally, an inventory list also intended for paper and pencil administration was converted into an open-ended instrument for the purposes of this study (Refer to Exhibit B - Pages 2 and 3). This instrument contains one hundred words in alphabetical order which may or may not describe a mentor. The researcher saved this instrument for the very end of the interview and meticulously requested the interviewees to respond verbally with a “no” or “yes” answer to each descriptive. If given a response of “yes” to a particular descriptor, the researcher required further explanation and asked the interviewee to elaborate by providing an example of how a mentor exhibited that particular characteristic. For example, if an interviewee responded with a “yes” to the “commitment” descriptor, then an interviewee response explained mentor commitment by indicating that “the mentor always arrived early for a

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