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This study aimed to construct and validate a tool to measure the supportive behaviors of mentors participating in school-based mentoring programs. The mentor behavior scale (MBS) was developed drawing on the premises of the mentoring sociomotivational model. The questionnaire has good internal consistency coefficients and adequate factorial structure, with the exception of the factor autonomy support. Moreover, three dimensions of the MBS predict mentoring relationship quality and the perceived usefulness of the intervention.
Published: 2015
Updated: Jan. 01, 2017
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This study reviews the current literature on missing data handling methods within the special context of education research. The article summarizes the pros and cons of various methods and provides guidelines for future research in this area.
Published: 2014
Updated: May. 05, 2015
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This article explores the use of the author's own self-presentation as a method of gaining physical and social access to ethnographic sorority spaces. The article then considers the methodological consequences that may ensue when a researcher becomes “too good at fitting in.”
Published: 2014
Updated: Mar. 16, 2015
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The authors reconsider five principles: historical continuity; reflexivity; dialectics; workability; and evocativeness. These five principles are critically examined from two viewpoints. First, the authors discuss comments on the quality of the principles, referring to contemporary discussion within the philosophy of science. Second, they review some empirical action research reports in which these principles have been applied.
Published: 2012
Updated: Apr. 28, 2013
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How is the usefulness of research assessed as university research becomes more and more commodified? The question is addressed through an analysis of how the results of a particular research project were received in a large private company that had provided the main funding for a research project on gender and top management, a project based on poststructuralist approaches.
Published: 2008
Updated: Mar. 02, 2008