Using the assessment process to overcome Imposter Syndrome in mature students

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Feeling like a fraud: Helping students renegotiate their academic identities

“…Chance and Imes' research sample group included high achieving women in academia from undergraduates to faculty members. Other research since then has identified this inability to internalize accomplishments and its adverse effect on academic performance in a variety of student groups including: mature students (Chapman, 2015), ethnic minority students (Peteet, Montgomery and Weekes, 2015), and first generation students (Gardner and Holley, 2011), among others.…”

Ripple Effects

“…Within Ed.D. programs, mentoring is often seen as a barrier to retention as it fulfills a need to belong within an academic setting that can feel foreign (Chapman, 2017;Coryell et al, 2013). Through frequent interaction, a positive nature, and being centered on positive concern for another, mentoring, particularly for scholarpractitioners in Ed.D.…”

“…candidates work full time as leaders within their professional roles. These individuals are educational leaders who have a strong sense of self and identity within their work; however, they may not have a clear sense of what the identity of a researcher and scholar may be (Chapman, 2017;Hall & Burns, 2009).…”

“…In addition, many are first generation graduate students who may not understand how to navigate this upper level of the educational system (Brunsma, Embrick, & Shin, 2017;Chapman, 2017;Coryell, Wagner, Clark, & Stuessy, 2013;Gay, 2004;Grant, 2012;Rudolph, Castillo, Garcia, Martinez, & Navarro, 2015).…”

Jumping Into The Deep: Imposter Syndrome, Defining Success and the New Librarian

“…Research can be seen for academics in general (Knights & Clarke, 2014;Hutchins, 2015), minorities (Muhs, Niemann, González, & Harris, 2012;Earle Reybold & Alamia, 2008;Craddock, Birnbaum, Rodriguez, Cobb, & Zeeh, 2011;Farrel, Alabi, Whaley, & Jenda, 2017), mature students (Chapman, 2017;Johnson, 2004), and undergraduate and graduate students (Kolligian & Sternberg, 1991;Ewing, Richardson, James-Myers, & Russell, 1996;Craddock, Birnbaum, Rodriguez, Cobb, & Zeeh, 2011). These examples work in conjunction with other variables, but demonstrate that librarianship is not unique in terms of experiences of IS.…”