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There is modest evidence that youth participating in mentoring may
experience a slight improvement in
their grades, but further rigorous evaluation is needed to confirm
this finding. Youngsters who were mentored through the Big Brothers/Big
Sisters program experienced modest gains in their GPAs over time compared
with non-participants.BBS1 These
gains were strongest among minority females
who had GPAs of about a "B-" compared with a "C+"
for minority females who were not in the program.
Some evidence contradicts this pattern.
Mentored students in Project BELONG were less likely than the
control group to be failing math (30 percent vs. 43 percent), but not
English (25 percent vs. 30 percent), reading (15 percent vs. 16 percent),
or social studies (24 percent vs. 30 percent). BLNG
Participants in the Across Ages program did not have better grades
at the end of their sixth-grade year, when compared with a control group
of non-participants.AA2
Evaluators did not have an explanation for this lack of impact.
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