TY - JOUR

T1 - Mentoring, undergraduate research, and identity development

T2 - a conceptual review and research agenda

AU - Palmer, Ruth J.

AU - Hunt, Andrea N.

AU - Neal, Michael

AU - Wuetherick, Brad

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Mentored undergraduate research has been identified as a high-impact practice that enhances teaching and learning in higher education. It is reported to influence students’ academic, affective, and behavioral outcomes. However, there is only an emerging literature related to student outcomes associated with identity development, specifically students’ personal and professional identities. This integrative literature review examines the intersections and interrelationship across mentoring, undergraduate research, and student identity development. Its results uncover the complexity of the constructs, and their dynamic interrelationship, especially when viewed through the lenses of the sociocultural perspective grounded in the notion of mediated action. Two assumptions undergird this perspective: first, that all investigation takes place at the intersection of these constructs with mediated action, not individuals in isolation, as a unit of analysis; and, second, that any study of identity must focus on an u...

AB - Mentored undergraduate research has been identified as a high-impact practice that enhances teaching and learning in higher education. It is reported to influence students’ academic, affective, and behavioral outcomes. However, there is only an emerging literature related to student outcomes associated with identity development, specifically students’ personal and professional identities. This integrative literature review examines the intersections and interrelationship across mentoring, undergraduate research, and student identity development. Its results uncover the complexity of the constructs, and their dynamic interrelationship, especially when viewed through the lenses of the sociocultural perspective grounded in the notion of mediated action. Two assumptions undergird this perspective: first, that all investigation takes place at the intersection of these constructs with mediated action, not individuals in isolation, as a unit of analysis; and, second, that any study of identity must focus on an u...

KW - identity development

KW - mentoring

KW - undergraduate research

U2 - 10.1080/13611267.2015.1126165

DO - 10.1080/13611267.2015.1126165

M3 - Journal article

VL - 23

SP - 411

EP - 426

JO - Mentoring and Tutoring

JF - Mentoring and Tutoring

SN - 1361-1267

IS - 5

ER -