Abeywardana Sewwandi U, Velasco Sarah, Hall Nancy, Dillon Jesse, Chun Chi-Ah
BUILD Program, California State University-Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.
Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
UI J. 2020 Spring;11(1). Epub 2020 May 14.
The California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) BUILDing Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program developed a near-peer mentoring component in which master's students serve as mentors for undergraduate research trainees in health-related disciplines, in addition to fulfilling teaching assistant duties. This paper has two parts. The first describes (a) the functions of this mentoring component, taking into consideration the context of CSULB; (b) the extensive year-round training curriculum for near-peer mentors; and (c) the evolution of this curriculum in response to feedback from BUILD trainees, near-peer mentors, and undergraduate research training instructors. The second part evaluates the effectiveness of the near-peer mentoring component, based on focus groups and quantitative surveys of both near-peer mentors and mentees. We offer recommendations for master's comprehensive research institutions interested in implementing near-peer mentoring within similar research training programs.
加利福尼亚州立大学长滩分校（CSULB）的“构建基础设施促进多样性”（BUILD）项目开发了一个近伴指导项目，在该项目中，硕士研究生除了履行助教职责外，还担任健康相关学科本科研究学员的导师。本文分为两个部分。第一部分描述了：（a）考虑到CSULB的背景，该指导项目的功能；（b）针对近伴导师的全年广泛培训课程；（c）该课程根据BUILD学员、近伴导师和本科研究培训教师的反馈所做的改进。第二部分基于对近伴导师和学员的焦点小组讨论和定量调查，评估了近伴指导项目的有效性。我们为有兴趣在类似研究培训项目中实施近伴指导的硕士综合研究机构提供建议。
