Assessing the Effectiveness of an Inner-City High School Peer Counseling Program.

Diver-Stamnes, Ann C.

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Publication Date: 1991

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Assessing the Effectiveness of an Inner-City High School Peer Counseling Program.

Diver-Stamnes, Ann C.

Urban Education, v26 n3 p269-84 Oct 1991

A peer counseling program in a 1,800-student inner-city high school (60 percent Latinos, 35 percent African Americans, and 5 percent others) appears successful when evaluated for the following: student knowledge acquisition; student evaluation of the program; students' impact on school and community through counseling sessions; and impact on the instructor. (SLD)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Blacks, Educationally Disadvantaged, High School Students, High Schools, Hispanic Americans, Inner City, Low Income Groups, Peer Counseling, Poverty, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, School Counseling, Urban Schools, Urban Youth

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Language: English

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