Successfully Mentoring Students With Learning Disabilities: Relations to Academic Self-Efficacy, Difficulties, and Mentoring Activities

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify factors which may influence the success of a mentoring project for college students with learning disabilities (LD). A sample of 190 mentees completed a questionnaire that addressed their skills, academic self-efficacy, mentoring activities, difficulties encountered during mentoring, and the contribution of the mentoring. Mentees' skills were positively correlated with their academic self-efficacy. The degree of engagement in mentoring activities was negatively correlated with difficulties encountered and positively correlated with the reported contribution of mentoring. Only the degree of engagement in mentoring activities and difficulties encountered during mentoring were significant predictors of reported contribution. Implications are discussed.

Author

• Rinat Michael, Tel Aviv University