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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
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Yaniv Biton – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: This study addresses the challenge of engaging students in meaningful assessment processes within mathematics education, particularly in pre-university preparatory courses. Peer assessment, a growing pedagogical practice, can enhance learning outcomes, promote critical thinking, and improve collaborative skills. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, College Preparation, College Bound Students
Paige Cristine McKeown – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The future of individual and societal progress is largely dependent on students' success following completion of K-12 education. For most traditionally aged students, this entails a journey into higher education at colleges and universities. This transition is rife with pitfalls that may lead students to stop out, fail out, or make inadequate…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Cognitive Processes, Social Influences, Social Networks
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Jenna L. Spencer-Briggs; Jonathan P. Rourke – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
A new module designed to ease the transition from school to university was devised and implemented at Cardiff University School of Chemistry. Two iterations of the module are described, both of them conducted under restrictions imposed by COVID-19 pandemic regulations. Over a two-week period, students attended 15 different sessions, each designed…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Universities, Science Education, COVID-19
Boyd, Brittany – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the country have begun to implement intervention programs, such as summer bridge programs, to address potential gaps and aid students in their academic persistence, as Black students continuously persist to graduation at lower rates. However, many programs lack a way to objectively…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Summer Programs, Test Validity, College Bound Students
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Beauchamp, Alexandra L.; Roberts, Su-Jen; Aloisio, Jason M.; Wasserman, Deborah; Heimlich, Joe E.; Lewis, J. D.; Munshi-South, Jason; Clark, J. Alan; Tingley, Karen – Journal of Experiential Education, 2022
Background: Authentic research experiences and mentoring have positive impacts on fostering STEM engagement among youth from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM. Programs applying an experiential learning approach often incorporate one or both of these elements, however, there is little research on how these factors impact youth's STEM engagement…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Mentors, Disproportionate Representation, Summer Programs
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Lambe, Sinead; Russell, Ailsa; Butler, Catherine; Fletcher, Sangeet; Ashwin, Chris; Brosnan, Mark – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
University provides individuals with the opportunity to develop greater independence in living skills and social networks, while also gaining valuable qualifications. Despite a high proportion of autistic individuals aspiring to attend university, many either do not seek or gain entry or drop out prematurely. Although some steps have been taken to…
Descriptors: Autism, College Bound Students, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Marie Thériault – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
This article examines the transition of adult learners from adult general education to a college program. The ethnographic inquiry methodology used for this research relies on Long's theoretical model which postulates three different levels of dimensions in adult education (1989) and on Bélanger's lifelong learning model (2011). On this…
Descriptors: General Education, Adult Education, College Programs, Adults
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Lahav, Orly; Talis, Vadim; Cinamon, Rachel Gali; Rizzo, Albert – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2020
The virtual interactive consulting agent system is an online virtual career center that supports freshman students in transition to higher education. This virtual counseling system, based on accumulative empirical knowledge for working students and knowledge about effective career intervention, aims to guide first-year university students in…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Assisted Instruction, College Bound Students, College Freshmen
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Jessica D. Osborne; Olivia Melvin; T. R. Parlier; E. Gray Flora IV; Yasmin McLaurin – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
This study provides a template for and impact from an Asset, Capacity-Based (Altschuld, 2015) needs assessment focused on undergraduate student success. The purpose of this study is: (1) to provide a template and foundation for institutions to follow in gaining a depth of understanding of student needs and assets, as well as institutional…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Needs Assessment, Program Development, Program Evaluation
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Heng, Tang T. – Journal of College Student Development, 2018
This study examined advice Chinese internationals would give to incoming Chinese international first-year students to ease their US college transitions. While the study was limited to 18 students from private, well ranked, 4-year liberal arts colleges who all appeared to be coping with their transitions (struggling students may have shied from…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Foreign Students, Opinions, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Davis, Matthew; Laster, Bonnie Bost – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2019
In an effort to improve performance and retention of first-year college students, a few institutions have started offering summer bridge programs. Varying from days to weeks or months, these programs offer an extended orientation to college life, teach specific academic skills and/or content, and help students form social connections with peers,…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Social Sciences, Summer Programs, Transitional Programs
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van Herpen, Sanne G. A.; Meeuwisse, Marieke; Hofman, W. H. Adriaan; Severiens, Sabine E. – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Given the challenging transition from secondary school into higher education, this quasi-experimental study measured the effects of a pre-academic programme (i.e. before starting at university) on student-faculty interactions, student-peer interactions, sense of belonging, and first-year academic performance. Fifty-eight first-year students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sense of Community, Academic Achievement, Transitional Programs
Freemon, Ebony Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined transition services provided to students with disabilities in their secondary environments and whether or not these services prepared students with disabilities to post-secondary transition. Fifty students with varying disabilities from seven southeastern high schools participated in this study. Quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Transitional Programs, Academic Achievement, Developmental Programs
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Ford, Jeremy W.; Wenner, Julianne A.; Murphy, Victoria – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2019
This practice brief provides an overview of a project designed to support students with disabilities considering postsecondary education. Postsecondary Rewarding Education is Possible (PREP) Academy was developed by individuals from a state vocational rehabilitation agency and a public research university. PREP Academy is a campus-based, weeklong…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Self Advocacy, Transitional Programs, Student Attitudes
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