Mentoring at-risk high school students: Evaluation of a school-based program.

Abstract

Mentoring has long been accepted as a within the system that are found to be positive factor in business (Roche, 1979), most desirable, and (d) protect mentees in higher education (Obler, Francis, & from unjust verbal attack when necessary Wishengrad, 1977), and with gifted stu(Alleman et al., 1984). A constellation of dents (Torrance, 1984). The mentor is an mentoring behaviors seems to be the adult role-model (Kaufman, Harrel, key factor in effective mentoring. Men Milam, Woolverton, & Miller, 1986) who taring relationships can be established or is a mixture of parent and peer to the enriched by learning or encouraging mentor mentee (Levinson, 1978). The mentor like behavior rather than by selecting cer serves as teacher, advisor, and sponsor tain types of people [as mentors] (Al (Levinson, 1978) who encourages, praises, leman et al., 1984, p. 332). and prods (Torrance, 1983), bolstering In his 22-year longitudinal study, Tor the mentee's sense of competence and ranee (1983) found that students who had self-concept (Alleman, Cochran, mentors completed more years of educa Doverspike, & Newman, 1984; Kaufman et al., 1986). Alleman et al. (1984) found that the dif ference between mentors and nonmentors