Entries by Jean Rhodes

High school aged mentors: Challenges and recommendations

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Editor’s note: In a comprehensive report on high school aged mentors, Carla Herrera and colleagues draw on data from their national study of Big Brothers Big Sisters SchoolBased Mentoring to explore the practice of enlisting high-school students to serve as volunteer mentors. They provide very useful insights and recommendations that are still quite relevant today.  In this […]

Findings highlight importance of quality mentor-mentee relationships

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Larose, S., Chaloux, N., Monaghan, D., & Tarabulsy, G. M. (2010). Working Alliance as a Moderator of the Impact of Mentoring Relationships Among Academically At‐Risk Students. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40 (10), 2656-2686. Background In this study, Simon Larose and his colleagues explored the role of the working alliance in mentoring relationships—predicting that more positive working alliances […]

Mentoring in STEM

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A teacher’s guide to mentoring in STEM How to find and be a good mentor in STEM BY BETHANY BROOKSHIRE  (excepted from Student Science) Mentors that are involved in students’ lives can keep them engaged and encourage them to pursue STEM careers. Finding someone who can inspire a student to take on the demands of STEM […]

New video explores the use of Research Evidence: Building Two-Way Streets

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When effectively applied, research and evaluation have the potential to improve child welfare practice and outcomes for children, youth, and families. In this video, Dr. Vivian Tseng challenges the traditional paradigm of moving from research to practice. She suggests that researchers and evaluators need to think differently about the ways that research is acquired and […]

Want to Get Research Used? Here’s Five Tips

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By Vivian Tseng Researchers often ask how they can get their research used. Many of us have devoted our careers to research because we think research can and should make a difference in the world. And yet, we struggle with making those aspirations a reality. In this blog, I offer lessons my colleagues and I […]

Vivian Tseng, Ph.D.

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We are are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Vivian Tseng to the editorial board of the Chronicle for Evidence-Based Mentoring. Vivian is the vice president, program, at the William T. Grant Foundation. Dr. Tseng leads the Foundation’s grant making, and she spearheaded its initiatives on the use of research and improving research-practice connections. Since […]

Register for the 2015 National Mentoring Summit

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Registration Now Open! The 2015 National Mentoring Summit will take place January 28-30, 2015 at the Renaissance Washington, DC, Downtown, in the heart of our nation’s capital. The 2015 Summit will be extended to a three-day event to incorporate an advocacy activity on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, January 28. This event is the only national forum […]

The problem of the benevolent dolphin: Implications for mentoring

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 by Jean Rhodes In their new book, “Mistakes Were Made, But Not by Me,” Carol Travis and Elliot Aronson discuss our how confirmatory biases predispose us toward confirming our preconceptions. In the absence of rigorous, experimental studies, we can easily summon up “evidence” that supports our viewpoints while ignoring contradictory information. This has relevance for mentoring […]

Mentoring Youth at High Risk: The Perspectives of Professional Mentors

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By Davielle Lakind, J. Mark Eddy, & Adrienne Zel Abstract or article Excerpted From Child Youth Care Forum (2014) 43:705–727 DOI 10.1007/s10566-014-9261-2 Background Youth mentoring programs rely largely on volunteers, but youth facing significant risks may be poor candidates for volunteer-based interventions. Full-time ‘‘professional’’ mentors in highly structured programs may be better suited to partner effectively with such youth and […]