Model Status Report

Setting: I am currently an employee of the athletic department and one of my observations regarding student athletes is that they lack time management skills. The athletes come from diverse backgrounds with varying degrees of primary education. The generalized assumption that K-12 education is equal throughout the country has long since been demystified. However, I believe, we make a basic assumption about student athletes meeting the same or similar academic requirements incumbent upon others seeking entrance into a university.
My task is to identifying the different levels of organizational skills among the athletes and design instruction to fit their time sensitive needs. While I seek to improve their time management skills time is definitely a restraining factor. Their schedules include a host of items traditional students do not have to concern themselves with, i.e. weight training, practice, team and position meetings, etc. Perception is also an issue, player resist being labeled with education or organization deficiencies they see themselves as better students than they actually are.
I current work as a mentor to three student athletes I help them organize their weekly activities and I make them accountable to their school work and to me. My position is continual in that I keep players throughout their stay. Although the goal is to transition them to independence I still have continued contact with former player and remind them about strategies we have discussed in the past. I will design and lead the instruction as class taught to incoming freshman and continuing students in need of remediation.
The user of the model will be myself, the athletic department and any other mentors looking to identify lacking organizational skills. The importance comes from what we want to accomplish as mentors, helping our athletes depart the university with a degree. The specific nature of the model is what I am current exploring there are some basic needs which al students can benefit from, but there are varying degrees of competence which need to be addressed among the group.
My model will likely be in the spirit of the Diamond model in that it will have a large evaluation portion with the hope of narrowing the needs to each athlete. I am somewhat worried about the assessment as I am not sure exactly how to quantify results within the target audience. Will the designed instruction increase performance and how do you extrapolate the aid and other instruction given by the mentors to improve academic performance.