Mentoring: Attitudes About School


Participating in mentoring programs influences academic attitudes.  Youth who had one-on-one mentoring (not necessarily focused on academic goals) had higher perceived scholastic competenceBBS1 than non-participants.  Students with mentors in the Across Ages program had significantly better attitudes toward school, the future, and elders than did youth who did not participate in the program or who participated in the program without a mentor.AA1,AA2  Teachers viewed the mentored students in Project BELONG as placing a greater importance on school than the control group students.BLNG 

 
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