Evaluating self-efficacy and performance outcomes in an elementary school mentoring program

This project will evaluate an elementary school mentoring program, the Learning Buddies Network (LBN), which targets challenged students in reading and math, in terms of its outcomes in respect to the mentee’s self-efficacy beliefs and performance. The intern will consult with senior staff members of the LBN organization to identify improvements and extensions to the existing program evaluation tools and he will develop additional instruments to perform the evaluation. The outcomes of the project will include an assessment of the program outcomes during a three-month period of the mentoring program implementation, evaluation of the pairing procedures between mentors and mentees and suggestions on how these outcomes may be further improved in the future, regarding mentor training, type of mentoring (face to face or remote), and methods / strategies implemented. The resulted conclusions will be the basis for further evaluation of the program in the future, iterating additional expansions, improvements, and updates.

Faculty Supervisor:

John Nesbit

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Partner:

Learning Buddies Network

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University

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