Purpose of Measure: Measures respondent's mentorship self-efficacy.
Lay-Person Terms: Respondents report their level of confidence to mentor on a scale of 1 to 4.
Measure:
Rate your confidence in your ability to mentor effectively:
- Very Low
- Low
- High
- Very High
Type of Validity: N/A
Citation of Publication: N/A
Instructions to analyze and interpret: UW - Madison Mentorship Training Initiatives: The mentor effectiveness scale in the NRMN measurement library from Byars-Winston et al 2015 was in fact built from the items reported in the Entering Mentorship curriculum (2005). The original scale was developed to assess the Entering Mentorship curriculum and specifically Mentorship behaviors hypothesized to be impacted by the training. It was originally 26 items but one item was dropped for the reasons described in the manuscript thus making it a 25-item scale. Since the publication of the 2015 paper, we have found that a single item of mentorship quality can work just as well in our models. For some research studies, we are still asking two items from the original 25 item scale - these are “My mentor showed interest in my research project” and “My mentor appreciated my contributions” – these items were associated with higher ratings on research self-efficacy and greater achievement of positive outcomes.
Other citations: Fleming et. al., 2013