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Download full textJoseph Stanhope Cialdella; Laura N. Schram; John Gonzalez; Jandi L. Kelly – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2025
This article examines a longstanding university-sponsored summer internship program for doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Michigan's Rackham Graduate School. Four years of student reflection data suggest that an internship is an enriching experiential learning opportunity that contributes to both…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Summer Programs, Doctoral Students, Humanities
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
Miles Davison; Ayesha Hashim; Jazmin Isaacs; Susan Kowalski; Karyn Lewis; Sofia Postell; S. Michael Gaddis – NWEA, 2024
School districts have historically operated summer programs to give students extra learning and enrichment opportunities to promote positive academic and behavioral outcomes. Despite the potential benefits and policymakers' endorsement of summer programming, recent research suggests that summer programs have a limited impact on post-pandemic…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Summer Programs, Program Implementation, Literacy Education
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
Benjamin M. Baber – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The project director sought to equip a select group of college students from Shades Mountain Baptist Church (SMBC) in Birmingham, AL to increase their Great Commission awareness and participation. The project director addressed a very significant need in his ministry context. He helped college students meaningfully connect their desire for purpose…
Descriptors: College Students, Religion, Role of Religion, Summer Programs
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
Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2024
High-quality afterschool and summer learning programs are effective ways to support children and teens and accelerate their academic growth. In fact, the American Rescue Plan prioritized a significant amount of funding for out-of-school time programs because of the evidence of their effectiveness. Over the past few years, state educational…
Descriptors: After School Programs, After School Education, Summer Programs, State Aid
Zachary Hess – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Participation in higher education affords low-income students with a pathway out of poverty. The federally funded Upward Bound program aims to improve the college-going rate of low-income and first-generation students. Relevant studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of the program. There is a gap in the research regarding whether some types…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Summer Programs
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
Erin Delaney Bryan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Locally and nationally, English Learners (ELs) struggle to achieve parity with their monolingual peers in reading. In addition to second language-related considerations, ELs' efforts to succeed in reading may be thwarted by poverty, trauma, interrupted education, barriers to effective instruction and parental engagement, limited parental…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Achievement Gap, English Language Learners, Public Schools
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
Early College High School Student Perceptions of Academic Support Services: A Phenomenological Study
Rios, Johanna – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This phenomenological study examined students' experiences with the academic support services provided during their enrollment at an Early College High School (ECHS) in South Texas. The participants in this study earned an associate degree from a community college while enrolled in an ECHS. Semi-structured one-on-one interviews were conducted with…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, High School Students, Dual Enrollment, Associate Degrees
