Our research work includes:
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Outstanding Scholar Kendra Hart began working on the project (April 2021).
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A pre-research discussion was held in May 2021 with students who recently completed EDUC 1199 and 3399 and engaged in the Concurrent Education Mentoring Student Experience program.
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We submitted a research ethics application (June 2021), which was approved by the University of Windsor Research Ethics Board (August 2021).
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Outstanding Scholar Holly Mariconda began working on the project (August 2021).
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Outstanding Scholar Deborah Laze joined the project team (September 2021).
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A benchmarking survey was completed for both mentees and mentors (September-October 2021).
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The first two rounds of focus groups were completed (October-November 2021).
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We completed the second two rounds of focus groups (February-March 2022).
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A conference paper was presented at the UWill Discover Conference (March 2022)
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The second quantitative survey is currently being administered (April-May 2022)
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A conference paper, Educational Outcomes of a Postsecondary Concurrent Education Student-Mentoring Program, was presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education Conference (May 2022).
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Emilia Iacobelli joined our research team to perform the quantitative analysis of our survey data (July 2022).
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Three names were randomly drawn, using an online randomizer (https://miniwebtool.com/random-name-picker/). Research participants were then informed regarding their incentives (July 2022).
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We have begun writing an edited book (Springer), Mentoring to Support Teacher Candidate Development. A call for chapter proposals was announced in May 2024.