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Leah Panther; Natasha N. Ramsay-Jordan; Lasha Lalana; Laura Eby – Social Education, 2023
The authors of this article represent an interdisciplinary team that includes a literacy teacher educator, a high school economics teacher, a community-based math educator, and a math teacher educator. Responding to the needs and building from the strengths of the local community, we co-designed with youth a community-based FLE workshop that…
Descriptors: Financial Literacy, Financial Education, Community Education, Community Involvement
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Gina Schlesselman-Tarango; Jill Edgerton; Elizabeth Pryor; Rainie Valencia – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
This piece introduces the Des Moines University Library's Research and Scholarly Communication Peer Associate Program, focusing on the curriculum of a five-day summer institute developed for graduate medical and health sciences students and rooted in a critical information literacy framework. The authors outline the institute's philosophy and…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Health Sciences, Information Literacy, Program Evaluation
Erin W. Cousins – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many students, including collegiate student-athletes, face academic challenges throughout their higher education experience, struggling to learn and perform effectively. One reason for this difficulty may be that students are not engaging in adequate self-regulated learning (SRL). Although research has demonstrated the effectiveness of SRL…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Athletes, College Students, College Athletics
Tammy L. Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Using institutional data from University of California, Merced (UC Merced), this dissertation explores the relationship between enrolling in academic units in the summer term immediately after the first year of college (first-summer) and four-year degree completion at a Hispanic- and Minority-Serving Institution, through the lenses of Academic…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Hispanic American Students, Minority Group Students, Research Universities
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Karen Weber; Theo Cai; Zhanat Elliston – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2023
This study analyzed the development of an electronic portfolio (i.e., ePortfolio) program designed to promote and assess reflection and engaged learning for participants in a summer internship program. Over the course of eight weeks, 12 undergraduates reflected weekly on their internships through their ePortfolios both in writing and through…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Internship Programs, Reflection, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Priyanka Parekh; Joseph L. Polman; Shaun Kane; R. Benjamin Shapiro – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Background: Natureculture (Fuentes, 2010; Haraway, 2003) constructs offer a powerful framework for science education to explore learners' interactions with and understanding of the natural world. Technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) designed to reveal pets' sensory worlds and companionship with pets can facilitate learners' harmonious…
Descriptors: Science Education, Caring, Inquiry, Summer Programs
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Bryn Spielvogel; Meagan Ricks; Michael Froehly; Jim Sibthorp; Tellisia Williams; Wendy Friedman; Tara Hetz – Journal of Youth Development, 2023
Organized out-of-school time (OST) activities can provide youth with developmentally enriching experiences. Summer camp is one such activity, offering opportunities for positive youth development and, in some cases, promoting socioemotional learning, character development, resilience, and academic and career-related outcomes (Garst et al., 2011;…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Summer Programs, Camps, Inclusion
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Lonnie Hobbs Jr.; Raymond Thomas; Zelia Z. Wiley – NACTA Journal, 2023
A sense of belongingness in the underrepresented minorities (URM) collegiate experience requires that the student feel the university provides a safe and welcoming environment. The purpose of this study is to explore the sense of belongingness that contributes to URM's perceptions while participating in the summer programs at Kansas State…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation, Agricultural Education
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Petchauer, Emery – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to explore how sounds and attunements to particular organizations of sound collide across an English language community learning space. The activities in the paper come from a six-week summer initiative that connected middle school youth with community artists for writing songs and rap lyrics, making beats and hip-hop…
Descriptors: Musicians, Community Programs, Youth, Music
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Quan, Gina M.; Gupta, Ayush – Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Background: Tinkering, an ad hoc approach to solving a problem, involves manipulating objects to characterize and build knowledge about a particular system in an exploratory way, often with the goal of getting some product/idea to produce desired behavior. Tinkering contrasts more deliberate activity toward understanding how a phenomenon works.…
Descriptors: Design, Problem Solving, Object Manipulation, Productivity
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Gossen, Drew; Hammack, Rebekah; Utley, Juliana – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2021
Students who develop interest in STEM careers by the eighth grade are more likely to pursue careers in STEM (Tai et al., 2006). Interest development can happen through a variety of sources, including informal learning experiences such as out of school programs and summer camps. This study looks at one such informal STEM experience, an engineering…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Camps, Elementary School Students, Knowledge Level
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Redifer, Jenni L.; Strode, Derick; Webb, Cathleen – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
This article describes the tiered mentoring approach to undergraduate research at a regional comprehensive university. In addition to mentorship of undergraduate student researchers by faculty and graduate students, tiered mentoring includes high school student researchers. The high-impact practice of student research is particularly impactful at…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Mentors, High School Students
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Gee, Elisabeth R.; Aguilera, Earl – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2021
Over the past several decades, the concept of critical literacy has been applied to an increasing range of multimodal texts mediated by digital technologies. Expressive forms such as fan-fiction, digital storytelling, and gaming have presented unique opportunities for understanding critical literacy practices. Within the more specific field of…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Computer Games, Video Games, Adolescents
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Pichon, Henrietta Williams – Journal of College and Character, 2021
This article focused on findings of case study that explored the use of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" to supplement a service-learning project. The project was initiated in an academic orientation course as a part of a summer bridge program in order to foster a sense of belonging. Data from written reflections and a focus group centered…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Sense of Community, Summer Programs, Self Concept
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Monson, Emma; Schumacher, Krista; Thomas, AnnMarie – Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities, 2021
The PLAYground summer camp was developed by the Playful Learning Lab (PLL) at the University of St. Thomas, an undergraduate research group with a focus on learning through play. Through a partnership with a local school serving deaf and hard of hearing students, the PLAYground was designed to provide content to the deaf and hard of hearing…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Camps, Summer Programs, Deafness
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