2. A Guide for You
How do I use this guide?
This guide is your companion for the rest of the semester. Each week, you will learn about a new mindset related to peer mentoring, review your score on that mindset, and discuss how to answer the big question of the week. Each chapter has the distribution for that week’s measure and a password lookup table where you can find your own score(s).
How to find your scores
At the end of the anonymous survey you created a password. Each chapter contains a table where you look up your password to find your composite scores for that week’s measure.
The tables show only the last two letters and the four digits of your password. So if you created BILLS8722, look for LS8722. Dropping the first three letters keeps the tables from identifying anyone, since passwords often start with a name or initials.
The lookup tables are grouped by stream, and alphabetised within each stream.
Your password is the key to your individual scores all semester. Keep it in your phone notes. To change it, contact the course instructor.
How to interpret your scores
Each measure produces a composite score from your responses to a set of related items (usually their average; for the two point-budget measures, their total).
- Find your score in the password lookup table.
- Locate it on the class distribution. The dashed lines mark the 33rd and 67th percentiles, and the shaded bands show the Low / Mid / High thirds of the cohort.
- Compare where you fall relative to other FRI Semester 3 peer mentors.
- Reflect using the two prompts at the end of each chapter.
These measures capture orientations and styles, not ability. The purpose is self-awareness.
What is coming later
The survey you completed included the full Mentoring Competency Assessment (Fleming et al., 2013) as a baseline. You will take it again at the end of the semester, so unlike the other measures in this guide, that one is designed to show change over time rather than a single snapshot. Chapter 4 uses your baseline answers to place you in a mentoring-style quadrant.
The first mindset chapter, 4. Mentoring Style, begins the weekly measures.