Mentoring

Overview

Influence: Mentoring
Domain: Teaching Strategies
Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
Influence Definition: Mentoring is most often defined as a professional relationship in which an experienced person (the mentor) assists another in developing specific skills and knowledge that will enhance the less-experienced person's professional and personal growth.

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	First Author's Country	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Journal of Vocational Behavior	Eby, Allen, Evans, Ng, & DuBois	USA	Does mentoring matter? A multidisciplinary meta-analysis comparing mentored and non-mentored individuals	2008	Mentoring on performance outcomes	31	10,250	31	0.16
American Journal of Community Psychology	DuBois, Holloway, Valentine, & Cooper	USA	Effectiveness of mentoring programs for youth: a meta-analytic review	2002	Mentoring on academic outcomes	59	0	574	0.18
Psychological Science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society	DuBois, Portillo, Rhodes, Silverthorn, & Valentine	USA	How Effective Are Mentoring Programs for Youth? A Systematic Assessment of the Evidence	2011	Mentoring on academic outcomes	73	0	54	0.21
Research on Social Work Practice	Wood & Mayo-Wilson	USA	School-based mentoring for adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis	2012	School based mentoring on adolescent achievement	5	4,769	5	-0.01
Educational Review	Sneyers & De Witte	Netherlands	Interventions in higher education and their effect on student success: a meta-analysis.	2018	Mentoring on academic outcomes	7	0	7	0.15
TOTAL/AVERAGE						175	15,019	671	0.14