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Janet Kesterson Isbell – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2024
Research has demonstrated the need to prepare higher education faculty for transitioning from in-person to online modality. Researchers note the need to train faculty in course design, building classroom community, and establishing a teaching presence, among other things. This paper describes a professor's participation in a university-funded…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development, Instructional Design
Leigh Kale D'Amico; Xumei Fan; Sommer Garrett; Xiaofang Zhang; Janice Kilburn; Alexis Jones; Chelsea Richard – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2024
Effective transitions to kindergarten engage families and ease children into new environments. Countdown to Kindergarten (CTK), a program in a southeastern U.S. state that serves more than 1,000 children each year and is grounded in Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, partners kindergarten teachers and families to facilitate effective…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Kindergarten, Young Children, Family School Relationship
Laura J. Muller; Melissa Eblen-Zayas – Numeracy, 2025
We developed a framework for characterizing an institution's quantitative skills/reasoning support ecosystem to consider how various activities contribute to student success in areas connected to students' quantitative preparation. Through discussions with faculty and staff stakeholders at eight selective small liberal arts colleges, we…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Small Colleges, Liberal Arts
Marcus Brumfield; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh; Christa Winkler – Discover Education, 2024
Background: In response to the effort to increase minority enrollment in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors, STEM summer bridge programs were created to help minorities with the transition from high school to college with the long-term goal of increasing the diversity of professionals in STEM. The goal of this…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, Outcomes of Education, STEM Education
Oliver W. A. Wilson; Dean Gouda; Bradley J. Cardinal; Kelsey E. Holland; Lucas D. Elliott; Michele Duffey; Melissa Bopp – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To review the physical activity promotion efforts of Power 5 conference institutions' summer transition programs. Methods: The websites of Power 5 Conference and affiliate member institutions (N = 78) were systematically reviewed and information on summer transition programs pertaining to health were extracted. Results: Most (n = 45,…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Nutrition Instruction, Health Education, Course Content
Khadijah S. Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Higher education institutions have been grappling with significant enrollment declines and have urgently implemented retention strategies to sustain their student populations amid shifting demographics and economic challenges (American Association of Community Colleges, 2023; Hanover Research, 2021). However, these programs often neglect the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Transitional Programs, College Preparation, College Bound Students
Jacob Pleasants; Richard Velasco; Claudia Colonnello; Shansley Glenn; Samuel Crapitto; Kate Raymond; Brandon Abbott – Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Background: To address complex challenges of modern society, engineering education needs to help students develop sociotechnical perspectives of engineering. Research has documented efforts to incorporate sociotechnical thinking into undergraduate engineering education, but those perspectives must often compete with more dominant technocentric…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Engineering Education, College Bound Students, Higher Education
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
Mayra Puente; Brianna R. Ramirez – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
This article challenges the "remedial" and "developmental" framing of summer bridge programs. The study used semi-structured interviews and focus groups to assess 63 students of Color who participated in a 5-week summer bridge program. Through the theoretical concept of counterspace, findings showed that the intentional…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Summer Programs, Remedial Programs, Self Concept
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
Andre D. Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explored the Central Academy Summer Bridge Program and provides information for future researchers seeking different perspectives on how an academic support unit can impact underrepresented students' academic progression and university retention anchored by a theoretical framework incorporating transition, self-efficacy, motivation and…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Transitional Programs, Summer Programs, School Transition
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
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
Matthew Austin Gonzales – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Ethical counselors promote social justice (American Counseling Association, 2014). Based on counselors' specialty and site of practice, promoting social justice involves different goals and methods. One way for college counselors to promote social justice is to support students from groups historically excluded from higher education at their…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Social Justice, Summer Programs, Transitional Programs
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