A hallgatói populáció mentorálást előrejelző tényezőinek vizsgálata

Abstract

Higher education's expansion has diversified the undergraduate student population. We cannot talk about homogeneous groups in universities and colleges, because their diversity has made them extremely heterogeneous - especially in recent years. Not only at national level, but also within a university, the composition of the student population varies, with different fields of interest, family backgrounds, motivations, goals and personalities. In this research, we want to find out who among the students are the ones who show more interest and willingness to mentoring. What influences whether or not someone becomes a mentor in the Let’s Teach for Hungary mentoring program. We would like to explore what influences the choice of whether to take advantage of this extracurricular opportunity at university or not. In our research, we conducted a regression analysis to get a complex answer to the question in the title, in order to see what are the weaker and stronger factors in becoming a mentor. In our quantitative research, we interviewed a total of 214 undergraduate mentors and mentor candidates in the spring of 2021 from the University of Debrecen, the University of Szeged and the Eötvös Loránd University. It was an important factor in our results - among others - whether someone had been involved in a program as a mentor or a mentee before. We also observed differences between grades, there is a correlation between the length of the student's training and their willingness to participate in mentoring. Our results can be useful for the universities participating in the programme, and can also provide relevant information for the coordinators, thus contributing to the success of the programme.