ERIC Number: ED581728
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Mar
Pages: 32
Abstractor: ERIC
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Summer Counseling. What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report
What Works Clearinghouse
"Summer counseling" is designed to help college-intending high school graduates complete the steps needed to enroll in college and start their college careers. These programs provide services during the months between high school graduation and college enrollment and involve outreach by college counselors or peer mentors via text messaging campaigns, email, phone, in-person meetings, instant messaging, or social media. These intervention services provide college-intending individuals with information about tasks required for college enrollment, as well as assistance in overcoming unanticipated financial, informational,and socioemotional barriers that prevent college entry. The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) identified five studies of "summer counseling" that both fall within the scope of the Transition to College topic area and meet WWC group design standards. All five studies meet WWC group design standards without reservations, and no studies meet WWC group design standards with reservations. Together, these studies included 13,614 recent high school graduates in 10 locations. "Summer counseling" had potentially positive effects on credit accumulation and persistence and mixed effects on college access and enrollment for recent high school graduates.
Descriptors: High School Graduates, College Bound Students, Academic Advising, Summer Programs, Enrollment, School Counselors, Information Dissemination, Transitional Programs, College Credits, Academic Persistence, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Costs, Randomized Controlled Trials, Counseling Psychology
What Works Clearinghouse. 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20024; e-mail: contact.WWC@ed.gov; Web site: https://whatworks.ed.gov/
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: What Works Clearinghouse (ED); Abt Associates, Inc.
Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts (Boston); Georgia; New Mexico; Texas; Massachusetts; Pennsylvania
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: EDIES16C0024
IES Publication: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/693
Author Affiliations: N/A