Connecting Mentoring to the Classroom: Lessons for Teachers of Female Undergraduates

Abstract

This article provides pedagogical activities to help develop students into “model mentees.” Being a competent mentee is especially significant for young women who aspire to executive-level management positions. The authors conducted a qualitative study of 14 executive-level women and gained insights into how mentoring relationships affected these women’s careers. For the past four semesters, the findings have been used to enhance the content of two business courses, and they were also used to improve the preparation of students who participated in a career-oriented business forum. Further research should be conducted to establish best practices for designing and integrating into business school curricula not just opportunities for students to connect with mentors but also the idea of being a model mentee, which is especially important for female undergraduates.

Revisiting Classroom Environment and Academic Performance of the Students in Higher Education Institutions

“…Most of these studies concluded that the academic performance of students had not based on a single factor (Loo, 2017;Lynch & Hennessy, 2017;Mollaeva, 2017;Nogueira, Barros, & Sequeira, 2017;Shoaib, Tariq, Shahzadi, & Ali, 2022). Multiple factors were contributing including classroom environment (Blewitt & Shane, 2019;Shoaib, Anwar, & Rasool, 2022), students' home background (Boateng, Asare, Manu, Sefah, & Adomako, 2020;, study culture (Houtte, 2004;Shoaib, Ali, Anwar, & Abdullah, 2022), the role of teacher Dee, 2006), previous education (Ali et al, 2022;Selvig, Holaday, Purkiss, & Hortsch, 2015), and personal efforts (Arshad, Zaidi, & Mahmood, 2015;Shoaib & Ullah, 2021a). On the other hand, several researchers used different methodological approaches to study students' academic performance in higher education institutions including qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, observation, content analysis, experiments, and bibliometric analysis (Ali & Naveed, 2020;Allam, 2020;Caliskan, Akin, & Engin-Demir, 2020;Du, Yang, Shelton, Hung, & Zhang, 2021;Gomez, 2020;Hayes & Findlow, 2020;Kuzhabekova, 2021;Shoaib & Ullah, 2021b;Tripathi, 2019).…”