出版社：International Association for Computer Information Systems
摘要：Numerous studies in the past decade have proven that mentoring benefits college students’ lives on campus. A survey was conducted at the beginning of the spring semester in 2009 and 2010 to investigate the degree of assistance the students expected from their mentors. The population was selected from the computer science foundation course: CS146 - Introduction to Algorithms & Programming. 120 out of 145 (82.8%) students completed the Computer Science Pre Mentoring Program survey. The results showed that the students agree the mentoring program should be able to assist them in the following areas, ordered from greatest to least: (a) assisting their success in the CS146 course, (b) building a solid foundation in computer science, (c) embracing them as a family member of the Computer Science Department, (d) assisting their success in college life, (e) joining the mentoring program, and (f) selecting their future career path. After reviewing the results of the survey, we suggested that the stakeholders of vulnerable departments ought to maintain a long term mentoring program to lead their students to success.
关键词：Computer Science Student Retention;Mentorship; Social Network
