Is Mentoring Worth the Money? A Benefit-Cost Analysis and Five-Year Rate of Return of a Comprehensive Mentoring Program for Beginning Teachers.

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The Impact of Induction and Mentoring Programs for Beginning Teachers (2011, background): “This is an area for which the research community could provide useful guidance to the policy community, but this is also an area for which there has been almost no empirical work done (for an exception, see Villar & Strong, 2007).”
The High Cost of Leaving: An Analysis of the Cost of Teacher Turnover (2010, background): “Investing in teachers produces positive and exponential returns—the costs of teacher turnover are reduced and the benefit to students and society is increased (Villar and Strong 2007).”
Formal and Informal Mentoring (2014, background): “…with research that shows such a match on contentarea expertise is related to the quality and outcomes of mentoring (Lopez, Lash, Schaffner, Shields, & Wagner, 2004; Villar & Strong, 2007) and is necessary for fostering productive interactions and teachers’ instructional growth (e.g., Ball, 2000).”