Purpose of Measure: Evaluates how often mentors engage in culturally aware mentorship practices
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Measure:
Please indicate how frequently each of the following has occurred in your research mentorship relationships during the past 12 months, including any current research mentorship relationship:
| 1. Never | 2. Rarely | 3. Sometimes | 4. Frequently | 4. All of the time | |
| 1. I created opportunities for my mentees to bring up issues of race/ethnicity as they arose. | |||||
| 2. I encouraged mentees to think about how the research relates to their own lived experience. | |||||
| 3. I was willing to discuss race and ethnicity with my mentee, even if it made me ucomfortable. | |||||
| 4. I reflected upon how the research experience might differ for mentees from different racial/ethnic groups.. | |||||
| 5. I raised the topic of race/ethnicity in my research Mentorship relationships when it was relevant. | |||||
| 6. I implemented specific strategies to address racial/ethnic diversity in my research Mentorship relationships. | |||||
| 7. I approached the topic of race/ethnicity with my mentee(s) in a respectful manner.. |
Type of Validity: Measure "was validated with separate mentor and mentee samples through a three-phase process of pilot testing and scale revision. Phase 1 was a small-scale pilot test of items with trainees and mentors. Phase 2 involved piloting the measure with a national sample of trainees and their mentors to examine the psychometric properties of the scale. Phase 3 examined evidence of construct validity for the revised CDA–R/E with a separate sample of trainees and mentors recruited nationally. "
Citation of Publication: Measuring Research Mentors' Cultural Diversity Awareness for Race/Ethnicity in STEM: Validity Evidence for a New Scale, Angela Byars-Winston and Amanda R. Butz, CBE-Life Sciences Education 2021 20:2 Supplemental materials contain detailed information on validation and final measure.
Instructions to analyze and interpret: "Culturally Responsive Mentoring (Byars-Winston, 2014) refers to mentors who acknowledge their own cultural identity and the identities of their mentees and use this knowledge to improve their mentoring relationships. In order to become a culturally responsive mentor, one must first become aware of cultural diversity and its role in mentoring relationships. Cultural diversity awareness (CDA) refers to the ability to recognize culturally shaped beliefs, perceptions, and judgments and awareness of cultural differences and similarities (National Center for Cultural Competence, n.d.). A mentor who is proficient in CDA is sensitive to occasions to be culturally responsive, confident to do so, and attends to cultural diversity in his or her research mentoring relationships." Calculate arithmetic mean of item responses for mean scale score. Higher scores correspond to higher levels of CDA self-efficacy. Validation required for use in undergraduate and postdoc populations
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