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Fairmont State College GEAR UP Project: Year 4 Baseline Seventh-Grade Survey and Tenth-Grade Follow-Up Survey (2002-2003). Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs.
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Finch, Nicole L.; Cowley, Kimberly S. – 2003
Project GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) is a federally funded program focused on encouraging disadvantaged youth to have high expectations, stay in school, and take academically rigorous courses to prepare them for college. A GEAR UP grant in rural north-central West Virginia funds academic and support…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Preparation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attitudes
A Study of Factors Affecting Student Enrollment and Scheduling in Vocational Education Programs in West Virginia. Final Report.
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Jacobs, Dan K.; And Others – 1975
The goal of the study was to identify factors which inhibit the ability of West Virginia secondary school students to enroll or maintain enrollment in a vocational education program. Interviews were held with administrators, counselors, State supervisors, and teachers from a selected sample of vocational centers and comprehensive high schools from…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Enrollment Influences, High Schools, Parent Attitudes
Sleeping Beauty Redefined: African American Girls in Transition.
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Kusimo, Patricia S. – 1997
This paper examines the interests, perceptions, and participation of 16 African American girls in a program designed to improve girls' persistence in science, mathematics, and technology (SMT). The girls are among 33 African American and 73 total original participants in "Rural and Urban Images: Voices of Girls in Science, Mathematics, and…
Descriptors: Black Students, Career Exploration, Early Adolescents, Educational Attitudes
Schools of Fort Gay-Thompson, West Virginia, Spring 1973. A Report to the Fort Gay-Thompson School Community Council by the Bureau of School Service, University of Kentucky.
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Banks, Carl; And Others – 1973
The initial step in the evaluation of the Fort Gay-Thompson School Community Council's program was to establish baseline data prerequisite to measuring the change in the program's influence. Surveys were made of the typical program phases regarded as germane to evaluation. Thus, data were obtained on: pupils--enrollment trends, achievement levels,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Educational Assessment