Designing for Self-Efficacy: E-Mentoring Training for Ethnic and Racial Minority Women in STEM

• In Event: Design With Technology

Abstract

Research indicates that peer mentoring is an effective solution for building ethnic and racial minority women’s self-efficacy to persist in STEM degrees and careers. What is not known, however, is how to design a training program grounded in learning theory to build mentoring knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy. This instructional design case fulfills that gap by presenting details of design challenges and decisions made while developing an eight-week online training program for both mentors and mentees participating in a STEM peer mentoring program. This design case is a second iteration of the training program following an initial pilot study. Stakeholder feedback along with a conceptual framework including Tinto’s Institutional Departure Model and Bandura’s Theory of Self-Efficacy guided the design work.

Authors

• Jaclyn Gish-Lieberman, The University of Memphis

• Amanda J Rockinson-Szapkiw, University of Memphis

• Andrew Tawfik, University of Memphis