Is mentoring throughout the fourth and fifth grades associated with improved psychosocial functioning in children?

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 263-276

  Schmidt, Michelle E ^a   McVaugh, Brittany ^b   Jacobi, Jennifer ^c  

^a MORAVIAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79951698338     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611260701201943     Document Type: Article

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