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Mentoring Girls in Science

APPENDIX

Table 3. Results of Question One: How did the science mentors approach their opportunity to mentor
middle-school girls?

Disseminator of Knowledge Demonstrator of Disseminator of Side-By-Side Expert
Procedures Activities
Dr. James X
Dr. Geraldine X
Dr. Darlene X
Dr. Francine X
Scientist Joan X
Dr. Christy X
Dr. Juan X
Dr. Debbie X

Table 4. Mentorship expectations guidelines

What We Expect What You Can Expect
Question of the day? (Focus) Girls will talk throughout the day
Girls will be asked to make predictions Variety of academic abilities
and follow a procedure or a variety of
procedures and draw their own conclusions
Girls will be involved in collecting data as they spend the day Girls will have misconceptions
Side-by-Side
with you!
You will ask the girls many questions and different levels of We will have teachers to help
questions about you, they will most likely do this through questioning
what they know before giving content information and/or hands-on
materials

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