The Treatment Contrast
- Eighty-six percent of treatment group students reported receiving mentoring services (through any program) over the past school year compared to 35 percent of the control group students. Treatment group students received services from ED Student Mentoring programs and control group students reported receiving mentoring either from the program or elsewhere in the community.9
- Students in the treatment group reported receiving more intensive mentoring than students in the control group who received mentoring. Eighty-five percent of students in the treatment group who actually received mentoring reported meeting with their mentors at least twice a month, compared to 66 percent of the mentored control group students.
9 Three percent of students in the control
group received mentoring from the grantees in the study.