关键词:
ACCOUNTING teachers
MENTORING in education
ACCOUNTING students
ROLE models
ACADEMIC programs
摘要:
With less-advanced graduate students more in need of mentoring than their more-advanced peers, and with graduate accounting programs embracing a distance-education model, every accounting professor will face mentoring a student who's developmentally further behind other protégés, must be mentored at a distance, or both. This study utilized a 3x3 vignette design to investigate whether graduate-school mentors gravitate toward currently-productive protégés and away from protégés who cannot meet regularly with their mentor face-to-face. Findings were consistent with expectations, but participants raised interesting issues related to mentor/protégé choice, protégé identity, and what it means to be in a medium-distance academic mentoring relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]