An evaluation of the impact and effectiveness of the Scholar's Mentorship Program.
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Title
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An evaluation of the impact and effectiveness of the Scholar's Mentorship Program.
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Identifier
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AAI3127894
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identifier
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3127894
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Creator
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Lloyd, Gweneth M.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Michael Smith
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Date
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2004
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Social Work | Education, Bilingual and Multicultural | Education, Guidance and Counseling
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to monitor and evaluate an ongoing mentoring program for students of color at a public university. The Scholar's Mentorship Program (SMP) at the State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY-NP) was designed to help high achieving students of color who were not admitted through the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) make a positive transition to campus life and continue at the university through graduation. The evaluation of SMP was based on the goals and objectives of the program.;The program evaluated for this project, SMP, is a retention program. Its goals are to "encourage high academic achievement and good social adjustment" among student participants of color and to "encourage the retention and persistence of general admit" students of color. The CIPP-context, input, process, and product-model of evaluation (Stufflebeam, 2002) proposes asking four questions about the program to be evaluated: (a) What needs to be done, (b) How should it be done, (c) Is it being done, and (d) Did it succeed (p. 1)? The need to be met was retaining generally admitted students of color through graduation. It was determined that it should be done through a bi-level mentoring program including both a faculty/staff mentor and a peer mentor for each protegee with one required course, Key Issues in the Education of Under-represented College Students , and several additional elective courses. The SMP program has been in place since 1988--1989, and it has had minor revision since then and no formal monitoring or evaluation. As a result, the remaining question is, "Did it succeed?";To respond to this question, 126 out of approximately 225 enrolled SMP student participants, called protegees, answered a lengthy researcher-designed questionnaire that offered both Likert-type levels of agreement with statements about the program and open-ended questions about the effectiveness of SMP. While nine research questions guided the analysis of the data, the discussion focuses on the effectiveness of SMP as a retention program for students of color.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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D.S.W.
