Exploring the ripple effects of mentoring: reinvesting gained experience of research mentoring in higher education
本研究通过访谈美国一所高校的12对导师与研究生，发现研究指导的影响会超越直接关系，产生涟漪效应，并提出了一个解释框架，对高等教育中的指导实践有启示。
This study investigates the experiences and perceived benefits of research mentoring among mentors and mentees in a US higher education institute, with the aim of exploring elements that contribute to establishing impactful research mentoring beyond the confines of the immediate mentor-mentee relationship. The research involved 12 experienced mentors, and their 12 graduate mentees. Through a combined approach of interview studies and hybrid thematic analysis principles, the study fostered collaborative engagement with mentor-mentee dyads as micro-cases, leading to the development of an explanatory framework that highlights the significant impact of mentoring extending beyond the relationship itself. The findings reveal three dimensions of mentoring that diverge and converge in reshaping practitioners’ perceptions of the ripple effect of research mentoring: defining the impact of both positive and negative mentoring experiences, identifying conditions for conveying impact to other mentoring relationships, and exploring the ways in which positive impact spreads. These themes challenge the prevailing discourse surrounding the natural progression of mentoring skills and processes, and they significantly bridge the gap between disparate mentoring practices.