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Publikováno v:
Journal of Community Psychology. 43:408-429
Schools can benefit from understanding how to use community volunteers to achieve academic goals. A randomized control evaluation, involving 1139 students from 71 schools, of the school-based mentoring program of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America f
Autor:
Jeff S. Rempel, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Charles R. Martinez, Jennifer Cearley, John R. Seeley, Kevin P. Haggerty, Dana M. Foney, J. Mark Eddy, Jeff M. Gau, Alice Wheeler, Danita Herrera, Bert Burraston, Tracy W. Harachi
Publikováno v:
Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research. 18(8)
Child outcomes due to a paid professional mentoring program, Friends of the Children (FOTC), were investigated across the first 5 years of an ongoing multi-site randomized controlled trial. Participants were 278 children attending kindergarten or fir
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Community Psychology. 49:43-54
The influence of match length and re-matching on the effectiveness of school-based mentoring was studied in the context of a national, randomized study of 1,139 youth in Big Brothers Big Sisters programs. The sample included youth in grades four thro
Publikováno v:
Child Development. 82:346-361
This random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring involved 1,139 9- to 16-year-old students in 10 cities nationwide. Youth were randomly assigned to either a treatment group (receiving mentoring) or a control grou
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Community Psychology. 45:394-404
This paper examines the relation between the implementation quality of after-school literacy activities and student reading gains. The data are from an evaluation of a multi-site after-school program in California in which continuous program quality
Publikováno v:
Journal of Adolescent Health. 39:788-799
Common sense and psychological research tell us that connections to adults--parents and others--are integral to the process of normal human development. A substantial research literature exists on the role of the parent-child relationship in developm
Publikováno v:
Applied Developmental Science. 9:31-47
A conceptual model was tested in which mentoring relationships were hypothesized to reduce substance use both directly and indirectly through improvements in adolescents' self-perceptions and close relationships. The study included 928 young adolesce
Publikováno v:
Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 32:2114-2133
Despite the growth of youth mentoring programs in recent years, key questions remain regarding the relative importance of making matches on the basis of shared racial background. Both sides of the argument regarding racial matching are presented, fol
Publikováno v:
New Directions for Youth Development. 2002:9-20
Enduring and supportive mentoring relationships can powerfully influence the course and quality of adolescent lives. As mentoring continues to expand, community agencies are implementing alternatives to the traditional one-on-one mentoring mode. Such
Publikováno v:
Child Development. 71:1662-1671
A conceptual model was tested in which the effects of mentoring relationships on adolescents' academic outcomes were hypothesized to be mediated partially through improvements in parental relationships. The parameters of the model were compared with