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Karcher, Michael J.; Davidson, Alice J.; Rhodes, Jean E.; Herrera, Carla – Applied Developmental Science, 2010
Cross-age peer mentoring programs, in which teenagers mentor younger children, have proliferated in recent years, yet there is disagreement about the effectiveness of such programs. This study tested whether teen mentors' attitudes about children interact with their mentees' characteristics to moderate outcomes of cross-age peer mentoring. The…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Influence, Adolescents, Children
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Smith, J. Elspeth S. – Writing Instructor, 2011
In this essay, the author discusses her journey from her first year of the PhD program at USC, and the work she is doing now for a company that builds infrastructure in Afghanistan. She explores the ways in which studies for her 1985 PhD in Rhetoric, Linguistics and Literature did and did not prepare her for the work she does now. Her memoir…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Experience, Females, Expectation