Measure Overview
Measures the self-reported frequency with which faculty engage in culturally aware mentorship practices.
Measure Information
- Question
- Target Population
- NIH DPC Hallmark
- Key Citations
- Instructions
- Validity Evidence and Other Information
Prompt: Please indicate how frequently each of the following has occurred in your research mentoring relationships during the past 12 months, including any current research mentoring relationships:
| Never (1) | Rarely (2) | Sometimes (3) | Frequently (4) | All of the time (5) | |
| I created opportunities for my mentees to bring up issues of race/ethnicity as they arose | |||||
| I encouraged mentees to think about how the research relates to their own lived experience | |||||
| I was willing to discuss race and ethnicity with my mentee, even if it made me uncomfortable | |||||
| I reflected upon how the research experience might differ for mentees from different racial/ethnic groups | |||||
| I raised the topic of race/ethnicity in my research mentoring relationships when it was relevant | |||||
| I implemented specific strategies to address racial/ethnic diversity in my research mentoring relationships | |||||
| I approached the topic of race/ethnicity with my mentee(s) in a respectful manner |
- Faculty/Mentor
FAC-17
Byars-Winston, A and Butz, A. R. Measuring Research Mentors’ Cultural Diversity Awareness for Race/Ethnicity in STEM: Validity and Evidence for a New Scale. (2021). CBE-Life Sciences Education 20(2). doi: 10.1187/cbe.19-06-0127
N/A
See key citations for validity evidence of scale. Various rounds of validity testing were done during scale development to show both content validity as well as internal structure validity through factor analysis with data from both mentors and mentees in the biomedical sciences.