The Impact of Mentoring on School Success of At-Risk Youth

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dc.contributor.advisorWoods, Rebecca
dc.contributor.advisorWaynant, Louise
dc.contributor.authorCollis, Sara
dc.contributor.programMasters of Educationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-11T17:24:31Z
dc.date.available2019-12-11T17:24:31Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-09
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to determine if students who live in non-traditional homes would increase their school success measures (improved attendance, behavior, and grades) after participating in a check-in/monitoring intervention. Data examined included students’ attendance records, office referrals, and students’ grades and work completion rates. This study applied a one group quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design to compare these variables before and after the first five weeks of the intervention. Statistically significant gains were seen in the areas of attendance and behavior, so hypotheses 1 and 3 were rejected. Mean attendance rates went up by 26.493 with is a percent increase by 50.35% and mean referral rates decreased by 4.223 which is 92.69% decrease. Improvements were seen in all areas assessed, although work completion and grades (percentage correct on work completed) did not improve statistically significantly, so hypotheses 2 was retained. Research in this area should continue as there is little information available regarding interventions for students residing in non-traditional homes.en_US
dc.format.extent59 pagesen_US
dc.genreaction research papersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2low3-x7bz
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/16689
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relationMaster of Education
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
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dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectMentoringen_US
dc.subjectAt-risk youthen_US
dc.subjectSchool successen_US
dc.subjectFoster careen_US
dc.subject.lcshEducation -- Research papers (Graduate).
dc.titleThe Impact of Mentoring on School Success of At-Risk Youthen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Impact of Mentoring on School Success of At-Risk Youthen_US
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