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Research Question And Hypothesis Of Online Peer Mentoring

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RESEARCH QUESTION AND HYPOTHESIS
Problem Statement
As seen from the literature, there is a problem with ensuring that resources to further education are delivered to rural high school students. This problem is apparent in the fact that rural high school students cannot benefit from programs like Strive because of their distance from major universities. We want to study this problem further because the low college attendance and graduation rates of rural states like Idaho mean that teens are lacking opportunities to better their living situations, broaden their minds, and greater contribute their talents to society.
Research question
With this problem in mind, the purpose of the study is to find out whether the use of online peer mentoring in programs such as Strive for College are as effective as in-person peer mentoring, and whether further efforts should be made to allocate resources and time towards online mentoring. The questions to be addressed are as follows:
1. Is the practice of online peer mentoring as effective at getting at risk high school students to go on to higher education as its in-person counterpart?
2. Can students possess a positive relationship with mentor support using online peer mentoring as much as they do with in-person peer mentoring?
From what we have learned from the literature, we hypothesize that online mentoring will be as successful as its in-person counterpart and that a positive relationship through online mentoring can be maintained.

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