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Making Summer Count: Youths' Perceptions of Meaningfulness and Future Orientation in Summer Youth Employment Contexts
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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
Districts Continue to Invest in Summer Programs: Selected Findings from the American School District Panel. Research Report. RR-A956-32
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Melissa Kay Diliberti; Samantha E. DiNicola; Heather L. Schwartz – RAND Corporation, 2025
Summer programs have historically been a staple in public school districts' arsenals to help students keep up academically and recover from summer break-related academic setbacks. In addition to academic support, summer programs may have a positive impact on students' physical and mental health, development of interests, and development of social…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, School Districts, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Giftedness in Arabic Environments: Concepts, Implicit Theories, and the Contributed Factors in the Enrichment Programs
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Aljughaiman, Abdullah M.; Ayoub, Alaa Eldin A. – Cogent Education, 2017
The study aimed at identifying specific giftedness patterns that teachers discriminate against, and for, when nominating gifted students and focused on the identification of implicit theories adopted by teachers on the topics of intelligence, giftedness, and creativity in light of their specialization and experience. The study examined the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Semitic Languages, Talent Identification, Summer Programs
Experience of Giftedness. "Eight Great Gripes" Six Years Later.
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Kunkel, Mark A.; And Others – Roeper Review, 1992
Eighty-five gifted junior high students in a summer enrichment program responded to a probe designed to elicit their spontaneous perspectives on their experience of giftedness. Results yielded comments in the following eight constructs: confusion, boredom, perfection, ridicule, loneliness, uniqueness, burdened, and altruistic. (JDD)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Enrichment Activities, Junior High Schools, Student Attitudes
Attrition Patterns in a Summer Program for Gifted Junior High Students.
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Kunkle, Mark A.; And Others – Roeper Review, 1991
Completion and performance data were examined from 92 junior high gifted students in a summer mathematics enrichment program. Variables significantly distinguishing between drop-outs and completers were instructor's rating of the student, parental occupation, and school year (seventh or eighth grade). Gender, ethnic group, school grade average,…
Descriptors: Dropout Research, Enrichment Activities, Gifted, Junior High Schools
The 1971-72 Evaluation of the Connecticut Program for Migrant Children.
Mosley, William; Scruggs, James A. – 1972
The program aimed to develop and implement educational activities for migrant children which would increase their achievement level in the public school classrooms and to deal with matters of self, their interaction with others, and survival. Two types of learning programs were emphasized: Multi-Purpose Resource Centers which supplemented the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary Services, Black Students, Early Childhood Education