The Graduate Identity Formation Through Teaching (GIFT) Project as a Mitigating Tool for Imposter Phenomenon

Autor: Brooke Ward
Rok vydání: 2022
Popis: This thesis is an exploratory analysis of the impact of the Graduate Identity Formation through Teaching intervention -- an intervention in which Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics graduate students act as subject matter experts through teaching scientific concepts to elementary teacher candidates -- on graduate students and how it may mediate impostor phenomenon. A sense of expertise, community, and belonging were used as proxy measurements for impostor phenomenon. Data from graduate student impact statements in reflection papers and post-semester interviews were analyzed to measure change in imposter phenomenon for each graduate student. As a result of the intervention, graduate students were found to have an increased sense of expertise, community, and belonging, indicating a decrease in symptoms of imposter phenomenon.
Databáze: OpenAIRE