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Download full textSanlyn Buxner; Erin Turner; Ricardo Valerdi; Seneca B. Miller; Christina Baze – Afterschool Matters, 2025
In sports, youth are coached to see persistence and hard work as important paths to personal improvement and success. They come to understand through practice that mistakes are tools to help them improve and that collaboration and teamwork are keys to success in team sports. These ideas about the importance of effort, persistence, mistakes, and…
Descriptors: Athletics, Cognitive Structures, Mathematical Concepts, Self Concept
Direct linkGoodness Madu; Ke Bei; Stavroula Andreopoulos; Martina Steiner – Discover Education, 2025
Introduction: Undergraduate research in science is recognized for fostering positive professional and personal development. Several studies have revealed these gains to be accomplished when research work is embedded in a structured setting, with additional programming. This research examines the implementation of remote programming in the Amgen…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Foreign Countries
Stacey L. Brockman; Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija; Alyssa Ratledge; Rebekah O'Donoghue; Micah Y. Baum; Brian Jacob – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
Detroit students who obtain a college degree overcome many obstacles to do so. This article reports the results of a randomized evaluation of a program meant to provide support to low-income community college students. The Detroit Promise Path program was designed to complement an existing College Promise scholarship, providing students with…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Low Income Students, Community College Students, Program Effectiveness
Robert 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
Harper, Kaitlyn; Lu, Stacy V.; Gross, Julia; Obudulu, Chinwe; Wilson, Michael J.; Gross, Susan M. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) is a federally funded program that serves free, nutritious meals during the summer months. In 2019, 6 federal waivers that previously helped sponsors serve meals were rescinded. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to assess the impact of the waiver rescission on the experiences of SFSP…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Summer Programs, Food Service, Barriers
If You Build It, Will They Come and Will It Matter? The Unrequited Dream of a Summer Reading Program
Deborah K. Reed; Huibin Zhang – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2025
The present study evaluated the effectiveness of a non-randomized summer reading program offered by a school district meeting or exceeding all National Summer Learning Project recommendations. The district had 10 years of experience delivering the program to Grades 1-5 students with or at risk of reading disabilities. Voluntary participation had…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Elementary School Students, Reading Difficulties
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
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
Benefits of a Weeklong Summer Academy to Prepare Students with Intellectual Disabilities for College
Misty V. Parsley; Halle R. King; Andrea D. Pewitt; Lisa Ruble – Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, 2023
College options for students with intellectual disabilities continue to grow. However, there is a gap among students and families about available college opportunities. This study provides evidence of a weeklong summer academy that bridges the gap between high school and college. Results showed the summer academy increased participants' awareness…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Students with Disabilities
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
Bloomfield, Bradley S. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2023
Groups of children often transition between activity spaces in both academic and recreational settings. In schools, children may be asked to walk as a group between the classroom and spaces such as a cafeteria and playground whereas summer camps similarly use different spaces for separate activities throughout a scheduled day. Interdependent group…
Descriptors: Resident Camp Programs, Physical Activities, Summer Programs, Intervention
Cheyeon Ha; Makana Craig; Alysia D. Roehrig – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2025
This study explored students' prosocial efficacy and reading outcomes in a culturally relevant summer reading program for underrepresented students. From a positive developmental approach, the reading program focuses on topics rooted in multicultural education, with books organized according to themes such as making a difference for oneself, one's…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Prosocial Behavior, Reading Achievement, Summer Programs
Herring, Caryn; Millager, Ryan A.; Yaruss, J. Scott – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Self-help and support activities are often recommended for people who stutter, and there is growing interest in understanding whether and how such experiences might be beneficial for children who stutter. The purpose of this study was to explore the potential impact of participation in Camp SAY, an overnight support-based summer camp…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Camps, Stuttering, Children
Callen, Ian; Carbonari, Maria V.; DeArmond, Michael; Dewey, Daniel; Dizon-Ross, Elise; Goldhaber, Dan; Isaacs, Jazmin; Kane, Thomas J.; Kuhfeld, Megan; McDonald, Anna; McEachin, Andrew; Morton, Emily; Muroga, Atsuko; Staiger, Douglas O. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
To make up for pandemic-related learning losses, many U.S. public school districts have increased enrollment in their summer school programs. We assess summer school as a strategy for COVID-19 learning recovery by tracking the academic progress of students who attended summer school in 2022 across eight districts serving 400,000 students. Based on…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, COVID-19, Pandemics, Summer Programs
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
