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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"school-based mentoring"”.
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Opportunities await: The impact of school-based mentoring in cultivating youth resources
… qualitative research explores the impact of school-based mentoring (SBM) relationships on youth, focusing on how these connections build social networks and open access to valuable resources. Through in-depth interviews with youth participants, this study examines characteristics that …
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The Impact of Participation in a Secondary School-Based Mentoring Program on Urban Females After High School Graduation
… rest of her life (Way, 1995). However, secondary school-based mentoring programs can provide the modality to intervene with at-risk urban adolescent females to increase the likelihood of success both while in high school and after high school graduation.</p><p> This study is a …
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The Perceptions of Mentors on the Impact of a School-Based Mentoring Program in a Diverse Public-School Division in Virginia
… perceptions of mentors regarding the impact of a school-based mentoring program and to identify which research-based best practices were used to achieve these impacts. School accountability measures have brought many changes to education. Since the implementation of No Child Left Behind there has …
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An Examination of the Relationship Between High School Seniors and High School Seniors Participating in a Multi-Year, Looping, School-Based Mentoring Program
<p>Researchers have indicated that secondary school students were more likely to be truant than primary school students which lead to students dropping out of school and becoming less productive citizens as adults. Researchers have also shown that participation in a school-based mentoring program …
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Impact of School-Based Mentorship Programs for Students with Disabilities
<p>Mentorship in secondary schools can affect the course of students’ academic and personal life trajectories. Human association based on trust is the paste that connects students’ academic and individual lives and helps them sort out their fates. The purpose of my study was to determine how strong …
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DON’T FALL BY THE WAYSIDE: HELPING ADOLESCENT AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES VALUE EDUCATION THROUGH MENTORING IN A THREATENING ERA
… one possible approach to ameliorating the gap: a school-based mentoring program that helps African American males internalize a positive racial-ethnic identity regarding their academic-self competency and possible future-selves. This study 1) examined the quality of 6th grade African American …
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The effects of being a mentor on high school students' self-efficacy and communication skills development
<p>The outcome of mentoring programs on the child being mentored has been widely researched in recent years. However, little empirical research has been conducted to determine the effects that these relationships have on the person doing the mentoring. The purpose of this research was to …
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Teacher Mentors: Lived Experiences Mentoring At-Risk Middle School Students
… 11) and ultimately to graduation (Balfanz, 2009) schools and communities are implementing mentoring interventions to support students struggling to be successful in school (Balfanz, Herzog, & Mac Iver, 2007; Reimer & Smink, 2005; Christensen, Stout, & Pohl, 2012). According to Dubois and Karcher …
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A Suburban School District Mentoring Programs’ Influence of Black Male Students’ Desire to Continue in Higher Education After High School
… to Harper and Davis (2012), "Blacks experience school as social institutions that reinscribe hegemonic power structures, and therefore, they resist academic success to protect a collective cultural identity" (p. 106). This protection of their cultural identity is often seen as defiance and …
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An investigation of middle school mentoring relationships through the lens of the developmental assets framework
<p>School-based mentoring is a popular but relatively unstudied support intervention for students entering middle school. Mentoring research more generally reveals that relationship quality between student and mentor is foundational for achieving positive student outcomes. Using a …
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“I’ve learned more about myself than I thought I would”: using Video Enhanced Reflective Practice to train school-based mentors
… as a training method to improve outcomes of school-based mentoring. Meta-analytical studies have shown that youth mentoring produces mostly modest positive outcomes for the young person (mentee). Mentor-mentee relationship quality and mentor retention are considered two key factors that …
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Support and retention of school-based distance learners. First year experience of the Licensed Teachers Programme in Tanzania
… teachers could be prepared and retained in schools, at the period of high teacher demand. This study addresses issues related to learning how to teach and retention in teacher education programmes organised using the distance learning mode. The study attempted to explain the relationship …