ABSTRACT

This article describes the process of ecological school consultation within a university’s place-based community engagement initiative. Within higher education, place-based initiatives are geographically specific partnerships between community organizations and a university. First, this article explains the collaboration between a middle school and a university-based consultant. Conceptual and practical contexts for the partnership, mentoring program, and consultation process are provided. Next, the article describes steps in the ecological consultation process, highlighting the consultant’s role in facilitating a problem-solving process and in advancing mentoring program implementation fidelity. The fidelity intervention increased mentor adherence to the program’s components (F(2, 531) = 16.861, p < .001), which were identified as being critical to the program’s potential to enact positive changes with students. Implications for school-based mentoring programs and recommendations for consultation are provided. Finally, strengths and limitations of this descriptive study and of the statistical methods (ANOVA) used to evaluate program adherence are discussed.

摘要

本文介绍了大学基于场所的社区参与计划中的生态学校咨询过程。在高等教育中，基于场所的计划是社区组织与大学之间特定地理位置的伙伴关系。首先，本文介绍了中学与大学顾问之间的合作。提供了伙伴关系，指导计划和咨询过程的概念和实际环境。接下来，本文介绍了生态咨询过程中的步骤，强调了顾问在促进问题解决过程中以及在促进指导计划实施的忠诚度方面的作用。保真干预增加了导师对程序组件的依从性（F（2，531）= 16.861，p<.001），这被认为对于该计划与学生进行积极改变的潜力至关重要。提供了对基于学校的指导计划的含义和咨询建议。最后，讨论了该描述性研究和用于评估程序依从性的统计方法（ANOVA）的优缺点。