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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Summer Bridge"”.
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ACT 101 SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM: AN ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT SUCCESS FOLLOWING ONE YEAR OF PARTICIPATION
… by examining the academic progress of Act 101 summer bridge program subjects who completed two semesters in a suburban mid-Atlantic community college. The study compared qualified students who participated in the Act 101 program to Act 101 students who did not participate in the seven week …
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Influence of a summer bridge program on African American students at East Tennessee State University
… of the B.U.C.S. Academy program, a summer bridge program, at East Tennessee State University (ETSU). Although African American students’ enrollment has increased for several years, this population remains underrepresented in comparison to majority groups regarding retention, grade …
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The essence of a college summer bridge program: Voices of program participants who completed college
… programs for first-year students such as summer Bridge programs (SBPs). SBPs are designed to assist students with transition challenges, enhance academic preparation, and help them achieve equal footing with other students. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of …
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Skill, Will, and Self-Regulation: Assessing the Learning and Study Strategies of University Summer Bridge Program Students
… skills of students participating in a university summer bridge program (SBP), which is a 6-week, high-school-to-college transition program for academically underprepared, at-risk, first-year students (as defined by the university). The relationships between SBP students' learning and study …
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Bridge to Student Success?: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the University of Mississippi's JumpStart Summer Bridge Program
Summer bridge programs (SBPs) are a popular programmatic intervention of colleges and universities to assist students with the transition from high school to college and provide students with the academic and social tools they need to be successful. Despite their popularity, a survey of relevant …
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A Mixed Method Approach for Assessing the Adjustment of Incoming First-Year Engineering Students in a Summer Bridge Program
… of higher education have implemented bridge programs in order to increase the retention and graduation rates of at-risk students (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). In fact, summer bridge programs (SBPs), which typically occur prior to a student's freshman fall term, are among the oldest …
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The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation Focusing on Self-Determination Theory in Relation to Summer Bridge Community College Students
… influencing Basic Skill student persistence. Summer bridge programs are one of these strategies. Students completing summer bridge programs are showing signs of immediate academic improvement. However, there is a gap in knowledge regarding the continuing retention rates for students …
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College Transition Programs for Community College Students
… work. This study examined the effects of a summer bridge transition program designed to help student prepare for their first term of college. Three years of summer bridge data were analyzed. In the second year of the summer bridge program mathematics and English components were added to the …
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Exploring the Effectiveness of the Grizzly Success Program at Georgia Gwinnett College: A Quantitative Study
<p>Research suggests that summer bridge programs are a successful strategy for helping at-risk students succeed in college by offering additional tutoring, mentoring, and advising (Slade et al., 2015). Bridge programs are effective for increasing student success (Bir & Myrick, 2015). However, …
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Leading and developing a first year learning community for opportunity program students
… utilized the learning community model through summer bridge programs for many years. First year learning communities have proven to be successful tools in retaining students and improving the overall college experience for students (Buck, 1995; Garcia, 1991; Gold, 1992). As opportunity programs …
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Teachers’ Perceptions Of Student Achievement And Engagement In The Transition To High School
… of freshmen transition programs (specifically, summer bridge and freshman orientation) do teachers perceive as helpful to the freshman transition? 2) How do teachers identify and express their self-efficacy in relation to how they perceive their own social-emotional learning? 3) How do teachers …
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Educationally underprepared students' perception of their experience in a pre-freshman bridge program
… regarding their participation in a pre-freshman bridge program. Data were collected through a series of interviews conducted over the course of three months. Interviews focused on students' perceptions of their classroom and out-of-classroom experiences, as well as their overall reflections on …
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Supportive Measures: A Grounded Theory Analysis Of The Needs And Aspirations Of First-Generation College Students Enrolled In The Federally-Funded Trio Student Support Services (sss) Program At A Community College In Rural Kentucky
… into the TRIO SSS program as participants of the summer bridge program in 2017 at a community college in rural Kentucky. The summer bridge program provides student participants of the TRIO SSS program a jumpstart on their college experience and serves as an additional boost to students who …
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The reduction of remediation in the Illinois college and career readiness pilot project act
… added to a growing body of literature evaluating summer bridge programs as the most common approach to the CCR intervention was the summer bridge. As well, it added to a nascent but growing body of literature on educational outcomes that high school students demonstrate upon completion of remedial …
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Development and Delivery of Mobile Learning for Composition Classrooms
… composition classrooms and an intensive summer bridge program for incoming freshmen.
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Ready for College: Assessing the Influence of Student Engagement on Student Academic Motivation in a First-Year Experience Program
The Virginia Tech Summer Academy (VTSA) Program, developed by through a collaborative partnership between faculty, administrators and staff concerned by attrition among-first year students, was introduced in summer 2012 as a campus initiative to assist first-year college students transition and …
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The Pontem Path: A Case Study of a Catholic Bridge Program Focusing on College Readiness
… the highest and lowest paying majors. One way to bridge this gap is through improving college readiness of these students.</p> <p>Existing bridge programs like TRiO, Upward Bound, and summer bridge have shown success in improving college readiness. Upward Bound and Upward Bound math and science …
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Cultural capital in urban communities as a pathway to engineering at a predominantly white institution: Narratives of African American women in engineering
… The first essay examines the pre-college and summer bridge experiences of the five students in preparation for their first year of study and the social and cultural influences from their urban community. A second essay focuses on the high school to college transition of the five students, and …