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Juan I. Ahumada – ProQuest LLC, 2023
First-generation college students (FGCS) experience a myriad of unique challenges when starting their university education, including perceiving themselves as being socially isolated on campus (Markowitz, 2016; Nazione et al., 2011; Wilkins, 2014), experiencing guilt as they leave behind academically family and friends (Banks-Santilli, 2015; Orbe,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Adjustment, Transitional Programs, Summer Programs
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
Karina Evora – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which Black and Latinx undergraduate students of first-generation and low-socioeconomic backgrounds understand how the components of summer bridge programs influence their persistence at four-year colleges and universities. This generic interpretive study revealed that there are several…
Descriptors: Student Experience, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Summer Programs
Lixin Wang; Samuel Cornelius Nyarko; Matthew Lanning – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has created numerous disruptions for educators and researchers, especially in 2020 and 2021. Critical in-person activities, including research, have been postponed or canceled throughout the academic and professional communities of the world. The Project SEED (Summer Experiences for the Economically Disadvantaged) program for…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Motivation, COVID-19, Pandemics
Denise Jones; Zaida Pearson; Deanna C. E. Sinex; Jeremiah Nash; Aiwen Chen; Dennis F. Jones – Afterschool Matters, 2024
The current study explores the efforts of one summer youth employment program to provide students with meaningful work experiences and the participants' perceptions of the meaningfulness of their work and its effect on their future orientation. Most of the students in the study were under the age of 18. The Youth Enrichment Services (YES) Summer…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged, Student Empowerment
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
Sayonita Ghosh Hajra; Zareen Gul Aga – PRIMUS, 2024
The manuscript describes a community-based mathematical modeling task that was implemented in a Calculus I classroom to engage students in mathematical modeling. Twenty-five undergraduate students engaged in this activity. These students selected a context that they found interesting, posed questions, developed constraints, came up with solution…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Calculus, Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Instruction
Tracey Hartmann; Wendy McClanahan; Mark Duffy; Leana Cabral; Carolyn Barnes; Brian Christens – Research for Action, 2024
The Wallace Foundation commissioned Research for Action and McClanahan Associates to study how out-of-school time intermediaries (OSTIs) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and the role they could play in supporting communities moving forward. Citywide out-of-school time (OST) systems encompass a wide variety of afterschool and summer programs and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, After School Programs, Summer Programs
Dante D. Dixson; Leah Jansen; Ersie-Anastasia Gentzis; Frank C. Worrell – High Ability Studies, 2024
In this study, the relationship between clusters of hope and a psychosocial profile of academic talent development is examined in a sample of 466 academically gifted adolescents. First, cluster analysis is leveraged to examine whether interpretable three- and four-cluster hope solutions can be found in the sample. Second, differences among a group…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics
Robin Jocius; Jennifer Albert; W. Ian O'Byrne; Deepti Joshi; Richard Robinson; Melanie Blanton – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: Using a transformative learning framework, this qualitative study examines the perspectives and practices of 70 middle and high school content area teachers who attended two or more summer professional development workshops. Objective: This study describes how teachers' disciplinary perspectives and backgrounds influence…
Descriptors: Computation, Transformative Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Elizabeth L. Adams; Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller; C. Taylor Cox; Karen Pierce – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to describe teacher outcomes from participating in an intensive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional learning (PL) initiative for middle school science teachers in the United States. The initiative included intensive summer coursework and ongoing support (e.g., individual coaching,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
Marisa DeCollibus – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The current study seeks to support early adults in maintaining mindfulness practices to ease discomfort during their transition to college. Early adulthood is well-matched for introducing mindfulness practice, and summer bridge programs are a logical place to introduce these skills. Mindfulness programs for college students have shown promising…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Transfer of Training, Metacognition, Stress Management
Yu Xia; Stephanie Cutler; Ibukun Osunbunmi; Sarah E. Zappe; Esther W. Gomez; Stephanie Velegol; Minkyung Lee – Advances in Engineering Education, 2024
Integrating humanities and arts into STEM has been suggested to better prepare students for the workforce. Studies have shown that improvisation (abbreviated as improv), an educational program from humanities and arts, can potentially improve engineering pedagogy and learning. However, little is known about improv's impact on developing…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Professional Development
Moore, Daneell D.; Sartin, Loleta D. – Social Studies, 2021
The Junior Knight Camp is an annual summer program that specifically supports elementary school students in an effort to increase knowledge of social studies using an interdisciplinary thematic approach. This interdisciplinary approach includes STEM, the arts, literacy, and physical education. The camp operates on multiple campuses of the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Camps, Summer Programs, Elementary School Students
Olsen, Lisa K.-P.; Bixler, Robert D.; Powell, Gwynn M.; Garst, Barry A.; Stephens, Laura E.; Switzer, Deborah M. – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2021
The camp community understands that participation in camp produces a variety of impacts; what is less understood are the causal mechanisms leading to outcomes. In the past, research on the camp experience treated causal mechanisms as monolithic; this commentary argues that a weakness in existing camp research is the assumption that…
Descriptors: Classification, Summer Programs, Resident Camp Programs, Day Camp Programs