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Direct linkRobert P. Lubeznik-Warner; Michael Froehly; Taylor Wycoff; Victoria Povilaitis; Luke Cloward; Shannielle Taylor; Seunghee Moon – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: Summer camp is an experiential learning setting that supports youth development. Due to high fees, youth from low-income backgrounds often have fewer opportunities to attend. Subsequently, there is little literature about these youth's camp experiences. Purpose: This research examined growth and the characteristics supporting growth in…
Descriptors: Camps, Low Income Groups, Summer Programs, Experiential Learning
Download full textMiles Davison; Ayesha Hashim; Jazmin Isaacs; Susan Kowalski; Karyn Lewis; Sofia Postell; S. Michael Gaddis – NWEA, 2024
School districts have historically operated summer programs to give students extra learning and enrichment opportunities to promote positive academic and behavioral outcomes. Despite the potential benefits and policymakers' endorsement of summer programming, recent research suggests that summer programs have a limited impact on post-pandemic…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Summer Programs, Program Implementation, Literacy Education
Lijo Thomas – Journal of School Administration Research and Development, 2024
The purpose of this study was to pilot the DREAMS (Desire, Readiness, Empowerment, Action, and Mastery for Success) program, a community-collaborative, after-school intervention program designed specifically to address the holistic developmental needs of students at school. The author originally developed and implemented the program in Kerala,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Summer Programs, School Community Relationship, Adolescent Development
Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2024
High-quality afterschool and summer learning programs are effective ways to support children and teens and accelerate their academic growth. In fact, the American Rescue Plan prioritized a significant amount of funding for out-of-school time programs because of the evidence of their effectiveness. Over the past few years, state educational…
Descriptors: After School Programs, After School Education, Summer Programs, State Aid
Emily N. Cyr; Kathryn M. Kroeper; Hilary B. Bergsieker; Tara C. Dennehy; Christine Logel; Jennifer R. Steele; Rita A. Knasel; W. Tyler Hartwig; Priscilla Shum; Stephanie L. Reeves; Odilia Dys-Steenbergen; Amrit Litt; Christopher B. Lok; Taylor Ballinger; Haemi Nam; Crystal Tse; Amanda L. Forest; Mark Zanna; Sheryl Staub-French; Mary Wells; Toni Schmader; Stephen C. Wright; Steven J. Spencer – Child Development, 2024
Girls and women face persistent negative stereotyping within STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This field intervention was designed to improve boys' perceptions of girls' STEM ability. Boys (N = 667; mostly White and East Asian) aged 9-15 years in Canadian STEM summer camps (2017-2019) had an intervention or control…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, Summer Programs
Erin Delaney Bryan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Locally and nationally, English Learners (ELs) struggle to achieve parity with their monolingual peers in reading. In addition to second language-related considerations, ELs' efforts to succeed in reading may be thwarted by poverty, trauma, interrupted education, barriers to effective instruction and parental engagement, limited parental…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Achievement Gap, English Language Learners, Public Schools
Nicole Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a growing demand for a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) trained workforce in the United States. In order to remain globally competitive, the US needs to increase the STEM workforce not only in numbers but also diversity. Colleges and universities throughout the US need to not only gain STEM majors but retain them…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Transitional Programs, Summer Programs, Biology
Allison Hahn Elowson; Greg Wickliff; Paul Thompson Hunter; Alisa Wickliff; Kristen Fye; David Pugalee; Christopher Gordon – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2024
Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics is a four-week summer enrichment program where high school students study a variety of STEM topics. This article explores how participation in the Mathematical Evolution course affected students' skills in research, communication, and scientific reasoning and changes in self-efficacy towards STEM. Data…
Descriptors: Student Research, Scientific Concepts, Thinking Skills, Secondary School Mathematics
Caesar R. Jackson; Dawayne Whittington; Tanina Bradley – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2024
Sustained innovation and economic strength of the U.S depends on a greater participation of underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). University-based outreach programs that serve African American and other minority populations should do more to infuse invention education in activities that engage…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Design, Thinking Skills, STEM Education
Maximiliane Marschall; Susanne Falk; Christina Klug – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Despite the substantial efforts made by higher education institutions to reduce dropout rates, a considerable proportion of students still discontinues their initial study program. In view of this situation, the present study aims to investigate whether participation in first-year courses for personal and academic support goes along with a…
Descriptors: Student Participation, College Freshmen, Dropouts, Foreign Countries
Xumei Fan; Leigh Kale D'Amico; Janice Kilburn; Alexis Jones; Chelsea Richard; Lauren Zollars; Sommer Garrett; D'Arion Johnston – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
Based on the intersection of different systems at school entry, children and families often experience uncertainty about their preparedness and impending shift from other early childhood settings. This study used a mixed-methods explanatory sequential design and investigated the perspectives of parents and caregivers on kindergarten readiness with…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Kindergarten, Parents, Caregiver Attitudes
Holly Nolan Chavez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined opportunities for enhancing transfer outcomes for community college students through summer research opportunities at a university. It emphasizes the significance of academic capital, derived from Bourdieu's cultural capital theory, in facilitating successful transfers. By offering ten-week paid summer research opportunities at…
Descriptors: Student Research, Internship Programs, STEM Education, Community College Students
Hannah Lantos; Zakia Redd; Jessica Warren; Michael Bradley; Sham Habteselasse – Child Trends, 2024
Out-of-school-time (OST) programs and their funders rely on sound data to make decisions about everything from professional development and student recruitment to the selection of activities to offer students. Programs operate at a range of times (before and after school, weekends, summer) and in a variety of locations (e.g., schools,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Program Effectiveness, Outcome Measures, After School Programs
Insights for Online Program Administrators from PhD Learners' Summer Institute Residency Experiences
Michelle E. Bartlett; James E. Bartlett II; Mitchell R. Williams – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2024
The week-long, in-person Summer Institute offers students a unique and enriching experience that greatly influences their educational journey. One of the key benefits is the opportunity for face-to-face interactions, which can be transformative in an era dominated by online learning. Students can engage in real-time discussions, forge meaningful…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Summer Programs, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes
Miguel Garcia-Salas; Carla Wood – Grantee Submission, 2024
To promote children's language development through designs that consider familial contexts, the authors explored the effectiveness of a dialogic reading intervention customized for older siblings in immigrant Latino families. The dialogic reading intervention, developed with components of training, modeling, and coaching, systematically supported…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Siblings, Hispanic Americans, Immigrants
