Teaching minority high school students to recruit helpers to attain personal and educational goals |
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Authors: | Dr Fabricio E Balcazar PhD Richard Majors PhD Katherine A Blanchard MA Adrienne Paine MA Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar PhD Stephen B Fawcett PhD Ray Murphy MA Jim Meyer BA |
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Institution: | (1) Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA;(2) Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, USA;(3) Department of Human Development, University of Kansas, USA;(4) Department of Psychology at Loyola, University of Chicago, USA;(5) Department of Human Development, University of Kansas, USA;(6) Department of Health and Human Services, Dublin, Ireland;(7) Della C. Lamb Neighborhood House, Missouri;(8) ISDD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1640 West Roosevelt Road, 60608 Chicago, IL |
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Abstract: | Recruiting help from mentors and other potential helpers is a promising strategy for helping disadvantaged and minority youths meet their personal and educational goals. Three African-American high school seniors participated in a project designed to evaluate the effectiveness of training procedures that would allow them to ask for help in attaining educational and other personal goals. A behavioral training procedure that included instructional materials, role-play practice, praise, and feedback was used. Targeted skills included goal setting and 30 responses involved in the process of meeting with a potential helper. Role-play situations were used to evaluate participants' help-recruiting skills before and after training. Participants increased their help-recruiting skills from an average of 38% during baseline, to an average of 75% after training. Self-reported measures of goal attainment suggested that the students benefited from the training. Implications for mentoring programs designed to increase minority students' opportunities to reach educational goals were discussed. |
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Keywords: | mentoring help recruiting goal setting role-play assessment minority students |
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