Mentoring as a learning tool: Enhancing the effectiveness of an undergraduate business mentoring program

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 363-378

  D'Abate, Caroline P ^a   Eddy, Erik R ^b  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SIENA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Business education; Evaluation; Mentor; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940878419     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611260802433692     Document Type: Article

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