ArticleJournal of clinical and translational science2022
Revalidation of the Mentoring Competency Assessment to evaluate skills of research mentors: The MCA-21.
Article in Journal of clinical and translational science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 16 papers.
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- The Gendered Impact of Depression on Undergraduate Students' Research Gains: Can More Competent Mentors Help?CBE life sciences education · 2025Article
- Approaches and tools to measure individual-level research experience, activities, and outcomes: A narrative review.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Review
- When mentorship goes wrong: from personal vignettes to a system-level playbook for safer, fairer academic training.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Using the Researcher Investment Tool to inform a clinical and translational research initiative.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Article
- Mentoring across differences: Introducing hidden curriculum competencies for scientific mentors.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Article
- Sustained Improvement of Faculty Mentoring Competency with a Mentor Development Program.The chronicle of mentoring & coaching · 2024Article
- Perceptions in Mentorship: The Mentor-Mentee Competency Discrepancy.The chronicle of mentoring & coaching · 2024Article
- Erratum: Re-validation of the mentoring competency assessment to evaluate skills of research mentors: The MCA-21 - CORRIGENDUM.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2024Article
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- Mentoring up: How mentorship training influences mentee intent to change behavior.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2024Article
- Learning to Prioritize Our Collaborative Opportunities: Overcoming the Bright Shiny Object Syndrome.The Journal of continuing education in the health professions · 2023Article
- Mentor training for junior faculty: a brief evaluation report from the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance.Journal of investigative medicine : the official publication of the American Federation for Clinical Research · 2023Article
- Comparing the Outcomes of Face-to-Face and Synchronous Online Research Mentor Training Using Propensity Score Matching.CBE life sciences education · 2022Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
Introduction: The Mentoring Competency Assessment (MCA) is an example of a validated instrument for measuring mentor skills for postsecondary Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine research. The purpose of this study was to revalidate the MCA scale using a larger, more diverse population since the original MCA was validated on a small sample of predominantly senior white male faculty. Methods: The MCA was completed by 1626 mentors from a survey data set of 1759 respondents who participated in eight or more hours of face-to-face Results: While the 26-item MCA instrument was originally validated with six subscales, through the factor and reliability analyses, all the parameter estimates for each item of seven components of 24-item MCA were significant and had relatively high internal consistency; the alpha coefficient for the components ranged from 0.77 to 0.86. Conclusions: Five items from the MCA have been dropped, leaving a condensed 21 item scale (MCA-21) which loads onto six competencies, and should now be used to effectively measure mentoring skills. We provide recommendations for furthering the scale development and validation of common measures.
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