Category: Nightingale research and evaluations

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Five Master´s thesis from University of Vienna, 2016 ( In German)

„Evaluation des Nightingale Mentoring Projektjahres 2014/2015 mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse nach Mayring“.
Hanna Scherer & Samantha Ehli analysed the monthly report of the mentors of three mentoring-period to find out significant relations between different aspects of gender or studies on the quality of mentoring given to the mentees. 
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„Evaluierung des Nightingale-Projekts anhand der grammatischen Fähigkeiten im deutschen Zweitspracherwerb“.
Magdalena Clarissa Himmelbauer & AndreaTrautsamwieser  shows that children with lower language skills showed significant improvements in the speech production when participating in the nightingale-mentoring-project.
The grant-giving rules of the Ministry of Integration in Austria emphasises the aspects of how Nightingale – mentees benefit from the program in enhancing German language skills- which is shown here.
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Anna Grohova researched effects of Nightingale of the German as a second Language education.
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How an intervention project contributes to social inclusion of adolescents and young people of foreign origin.

By: Jordi Feu Feu Geles, Girona university,

The article presents the results of the impact study of the Nightingale Project, in Girona. More than one hundred mentoring pairs (mentor and mentee) that took part in the intervention project were administered a questionnaire (N = 58). This same questionnaire was also given to a group of adolescents with the same profile but who did not participate in the project (N = 128) and who were treated as a control group. After six months of intervention the results show that students who participate in mentoring learn the language faster, create broader and more diverse networks of friends in school, develop higher educational aspirations and expectations, are better acquainted with the reception context (municipality they live in), and improve standards of self-confidence and self-esteem, among other characteristics.

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Developing narratives as a pedagogical approach to fostering professional interpersonal competences

By: Barbara Fresco, Lena Rubinstein Reich and Carina Sild Lönroth

Groups of university students and mentors in the Nightingale program have participated in seminars to develop professional interpersonal skills and contribute to improving empathy and perspective-taking abilities, developing self-knowledge, and enhancing communication skills.

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The Effect Of Mentoring

by Carina Sild Lönroth 2013

This compendium is an abbreviated version of a more in depth version and a compilation of different evaluations of the Nightingale Malmö, the Nightingale Borås pilot project, Nightingale Växjö (Sweden) and Nattergalen (Nightingale) Norway. The compendium also features information from various research projects on mentoring.
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