Eye to eye mentoring program

School partners are responsible for providing a dedicated staff advisor and classroom space for the weekly mentoring sessions to take place, in addition to supporting the recruitment of students and contributing towards the costs of delivering the program. Eye to Eye in turn provides all of the necessary curriculum, materials, training and ongoing support for student leaders and mentors to facilitate the program.

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Eye to Eye provides an opportunity for your student who learns differently to build new skills and join an empowering community. Learn more. A small but important detail in setting those groups up is that they excluded youth from both groups who indicated they were receiving mentoring through some other program.

Now, this study was not a true random assignment design—they did do this kind of purposeful restricting of who got into those comparison groups. So while this may not have been a pure experiment, the program also seems to have avoided one of the big reasons that many mentoring program evaluations struggle to show results: the comparison kids going and finding mentoring somewhere else.

When significant numbers of the youth who are the counterfactual to the work of the program go and get similar services from somewhere else, it can wash away differences between the two groups at a meaningful level.

You are no longer comparing mentored and unmentored youth, you are comparing mentored and differently mentored, and given the tight thresholds used in the statistical analyses of these types of evaluations, that can often make the difference between having several positive, statistically significant findings and having results that look like the program achieved nothing.

That program emphasizes working with youth to apply to college the following year and does a lot of work to facilitate that process and get parents on board. The program did seem to do an effective job of getting youth to apply, which was good news. Now, with a goal like college planning and application in mind, it may be a good thing that such a high percentage of the comparison group did apply—after all this is their time to do it and it would be impossible to tell a family to defer that decision for a year just for an evaluation trying to test the results of one program.

But time and time again we see mentoring program evaluations that are undone by comparison groups of kids getting mentoring from other programmatic sources sometimes in spite of promising not to.