ABSTRACT
This chapter offers several options and strategies for assessing performance in developmental relationships, advising and mentoring. Excellent mentoring requires attention to assessing mentorship outcomes. Professors in higher education should find a method of assessing mentorships that is meaningful, manageable, and sustainable over several years- many mentorships exist for years. At the most basic level, mentoring acumen can be evaluated annually through the use of objective or narrative evaluation forms to be completed by all of one's advisees. Objective mentorship assessments offer the advantage of performance comparison from year to year. In addition, there are several existing measures of mentor performance and student satisfaction with mentoring; each measure offers a specific approach to collecting objective mentor performance data. Alternatively, professors and mentoring program administrators might find the mentoring relationship assessment item bank useful in hand-picking questions of direct relevance and important to local mentoring efforts.
