The mentoring in the Boys' & Girls' Literacy Project is a volunteer, research, mentor program; informal, yet in school. The mentors' in school practice includes read-aloud and doing literacy response activities with the children. The mentors work in whole class situations, rather than with small groups. The evaluation of the mentor program is found in the mentors' own journal responses, year end focus group interviews, teacher focus group interviews, and responses collected from the children. The program development is described in the next section.

Research Methodology
The case of the male mentor reading program uses qualitative methods to asses the effectiveness of the mentor program. This is based on seeking the type of knowledge that has an expansionist approach to data collection. The issues arising and questions raised in exploring the effectiveness of a male mentor reading program are myriad. Table 7 outlines the research goals, methods, and rationale.