Juliana Martins, Jennifer Cunha e Pedro Rosário, researchers from the Self-Regulated Learning Group, from Learning, Instruction, and Career Laboratory, published a chapter titled “Group Mentoring as a Tool to Promote Students Self-Regulated Learning: Description of a Three-Year Project” in the book “Nuevos Enfoques de Aproximación a la Investigación e Intervención en Contextos Educativos” from the IX International Congress on Psychological, Educational, and Health Contexts.
The chapter presents a group mentoring project focusing on self-regulated learning processes, designed to be implemented by teacher-mentors in the school context over a three-year period. This project was specifically designed to meet the needs of various school clusters in the northern region of the country, with the main objective of increasing academic success rates.
The chapter describes the rationale, as well as the different stages of preparation and implementation of the project, supported by four main axes:
- Tutor training;
- Implementation of the group mentoring program;
- Monitoring of the tutors' work and student involvement in mentoring sessions; and
- Evaluation of the mentoring program.
The implementation supported by these axes follows a self-regulatory perspective, encompassing planning, monitoring, and subsequent optimization of the processes inherent in successful implementation, while enhancing the sustainability of interventions in the school context in the long term.
