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Who benefits from mentoring? A randomized controlled trial at Tilburg university
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The study evaluates a mentoring program for undergraduate students of the Business Administration Bachelor at the Tilburg University. The program was focused on personal development, especially goal setting. In 2017, the mentoring was introduced to 274 first year students using randomized encouragement and turned mandatory for 296 first year students in 2018. The students were mentored by older peers more advanced in their studies. While the data fails to detect statistically significant effects when looking at the general student body as well as for female versus male students, statistically significant effects are measured for those students that only participated in the mentoring because they were forced to in 2018. In the first three semesters of their bachelor’s degree these students failed on average 2 classes fewer compared to their peers who would have signed up anyways on a voluntary basis. These findings suggest that mentoring might be a promising tool for students that are at risk of failing a class and this help universities to improve retention rates. Considering the costs of mentoring and the limited beneficial effects this approach might not be cost-efficient.
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Education Mentoring Randomized controlled trial