The Effects of a Peer Mentoring Program on Academic Success Among First Year University Students

By Susan H. Rodger, Paul F. Tremblay. 2003

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The present study examines the effect of participation of first-year university students in a full-year peer mentoring program as well as indi- vidual differences in motivation in relation to outcome measures of retention and achievement. A sample of 983 first year students com- pleted the Academic Motivation Inventory (Tremblay, 1998) and agreed to provide final grades; 537 students were randomly assigned to partici- pate in the program, while the remainder served as a control group. Mentored students who continued to participate mid-way through the second semester had significantly higher final grades than did students in the control group. There was no effect on retention from year one to year two, however data are being collected on retention and grades for all groups for the length of their undergraduate careers. Students high in anxiety in the mentored group showed achievement comparable to that of low anxiety program participants, whereas students in the control group with high anxiety scored significantly worse on achievement than did their low anxiety counterparts.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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Mentoring Students: Conceptualizing and Validating the Multi-Dimensions of a Support System (2007, background): “One of the stronger cases made on the positive impact of mentoring on student performance used an experimental design with randomized samples and control groups (Rodger & Tremblay, 2003).”
Can Peer Mentors Improve First-Year Experiences of University Students? (2017, background): “Also, studies comparing college students with and without peer mentors found that students with peer mentors had significantly better grades (Rodger & Tremblay, 2003), lower failure rates, and better retention (Chester, Burton, Xenos, & Elgar, 2006; Goff, 2011; Hu & Ma, 2010; Leidenfrost et al.,…”
The Impact of Mentoring on the Success of Community College Students (2010, background): “…definitions of mentoring are often either absent, too vague, or not specific to the population of interest (e.g., Boice, 1992; Bordes & Arredondo, 2005; Cronan-Hillix, Gensheimer, Cronan-Hillix, & Davidson, 1986; Lee, 1999; Mangold et al., 2003; Rodger & Tremblay, 2003; Ross-Thomas & Bryant, 1994).”
Developing Peer Mentoring through Evaluation (2011, background): “The few evaluations that have been reported have focused on either the link between mentoring and academic success (Rodger and Tremblay 2003) or on the impact of mentoring on adjustment to university life (Hall 2007).”