"Mentorship is a catalyst capable of unleashing one's potential for discovery, curiosity, and participation in STEMM and subsequently improving the training environment in which that STEMM potential is fostered. Mentoring relationships provide developmental spaces in which students' STEMM skills are honed and pathways into STEMM fields can be discovered. Because mentorship can be so influential in shaping the future STEMM workforce, its occurrence should not be left to chance or idiosyncratic implementation. There is a gap between what we know about effective mentoring and how it is practiced in higher education. The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM studies mentoring programs and practices at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It explores the importance of mentorship, the science of mentoring relationships, mentorship of underrepresented students in STEMM, mentorship structures and behaviors, and institutional cultures that
| ISBN: | 9780309497299 |
| Publication date: | 24th December 2019 |
| Author: | Engineering, and Medicine US National Academies of Sciences |
| Publisher: | The National Academies Press |
| Format: | Book |
| Series: | A Consensus Study Report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine |
| Genres: |
Higher education, tertiary education Teaching of a specific subject |