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Author : Cecilia Santillán-Robles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)
Download or read book A Study of First Year Upward Bound College Students written by Cecilia Santillán-Robles and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upward Bound as a Model to Deter Attrition During the Freshmen Year in Postsecondary Institutions written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enrollment trends are on the rise, suggesting that high school graduates are still willing to seek a college degree (Gold, Neururer, & Miller, 2000). Unfortunately, about 50% of students who enter colleges or universities do not complete their degrees, and many do not graduate within a reasonable time (Beal & Noel, 1980; Gerald, 1992; Porter, 1990; Tinto, 1993). The freshman year often carries the highest rate of attrition, with most students dropping out in the first 6 weeks of matriculation because they do not adjust well to college life (Wilder, 1994). The goal of this qualitative study was to show that Upward Bound can serve as a model to deter attrition among freshmen in postsecondary institutions, particularly African-Americans, and few studies have been done on Upward Bound graduates who have attended or are attending college. Focus group interviews were conducted with 9 former Upward Bound students from the State of North Carolina who were enrolled at North Carolina State University in fall 2002. The conceptual framework of this study was adapted from Tinto's (1975) model of interactions between first-year students and the academic and social systems of the colleges in which they are enrolled. Relationships and interrelationships among variables that may contribute to persistence were examined, including family background, individual attributes, pre-college schooling, goal and institutional commitments, grade performance, intellectual development, peer group interactions, faculty interactions, academic integration, social integration, and dropout decision. The major finding was that the participants felt Upward Bound was important in helping them persist past their freshman year in college. Many of the constructs of Tinto's (1975) research were also supported by the findings in this study, in that the participants who successfully integrated into the academic and social systems at North Carolina State University persisted. The participants, despite many of t.
Author : Robert S. Feldman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135600899
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Improving the First Year of College written by Robert S. Feldman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first year of college represents an enormous milestone in students' lives. Whether attending a four-year or two-year institution of higher education, living on campus or at home, or enrolled in a highly selective school or a college with an open-admissions policy, students are challenged in unique and demanding ways during their first year. Although many students rise to the challenges they face, for some the demands are too great. Retention rates beyond the first year are disappointing: one third of first-year students seriously consider leaving college during their first term, and ultimately one half of all students who start college complete it. What are the factors that impact students during their first year? How can the academic and social experiences of first-year students be optimized? What can we do to improve retention rates to maximize the number of students who complete college? Improving the First Year of College employs a variety of perspectives from leading researchers and student-service providers to address these questions and examine the first year of college. This volume also highlights the development of learning communities and coaching, as well as how technology impacts students' first year. Perhaps most important, the book provides examples of "best practices," as determined through research by leaders in the field, to permit educators to draw on their experiences.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428927018
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The impacts of Upward Bound final report for phase I of the national evaluation : final report written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vickie L. Harvey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118142144
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Faculty and First-Generation College Students: Bridging the Classroom Gap Together written by Vickie L. Harvey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Editor The population of first-generation college students (FGS) is increasing in an ever-tightening economy, a time when employers demand a college degree even for an initial interview. According to a 2007 study by UCLA?s Higher Education Research Institute, nearly one in six freshmen at American four-year institutions is firstgeneration. However, FGS often straddle different cultures between school and home, and many feel socially, ethnically, academically, and emotionally marginalized on campus. Because of these disparities, FGS frequently encounter barriers to academic success and require additional campus support resources. Some institutions offer increased financial aid and loan-free aid packages to FGS, but these remedies?although welcome?do not fully address the diverse and complex challenges that these students experience. Responding to these complexities, this volume?s chapters extend previous research by examining the multiple transitions experienced by both undergraduate and graduate FGS. This volume?s cuttingedge research will help college and university administrators, faculty, and staff work better with FGS through more effective pedagogy and institutional programs. Ultimately, this volume affirms how learning communities are strengthened when they include diverse student populations such as FGS and meet their particular emotional, academic, and financial needs.
Author : Robert S. Feldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110717628X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The First Year of College written by Robert S. Feldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the first year of college and the intersecting challenges facing today's students, written by top educational researchers.
Author : National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition
Publisher : The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience
ISBN 13 : 1942072422
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Response Frequencies from the 2017 National Survey on The First-Year Experience written by National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition and published by The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2017 National Survey on the First-Year Experience was designed to explore the structure and administration of a broad range of initiatives designed to support success in the first college year. Specific sections of the survey examine overall institutional attention to the first year, as well as common first-year programs including first-year seminars, academic advising, orientation, common-reading initiatives, early-alert programs, learning communities, and residential programs. Response Frequencies from the 2017 National Survey on The First-Year Experience is a fixed, layout eBook which contains comprehensive data tables including responses to all survey items disaggregated by institutional type, control, and first-year cohort size. Buy the eBook separately or as a package with the print version of the Research Report on College Transitions No. 9, 2017 National Survey on the First-Year Experience: Creating and Coordinating Structures to Support Student Success.
Author : David E. Myers
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The National Evaluation of Upward Bound written by David E. Myers and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on the short-term effects of Upward Bound, a federal pre-college program designed to help economically disadvantaged students complete high school and gain access to post-secondary education, presents interim findings from the Longitudinal Effectiveness Study of Upward Bound based on data on approximately 2,800 students during the first year or two of high school. At present, there are more than 600 Upward Bound projects; they offer intensive instructional programs and are usually hosted by 2-year and 4-year colleges. The study found that: (1) Upward Bound has early positive impacts on students' educational expectations and academic course-taking; (2) students with lower educational expectations initially benefit more from Upward Bound; (3) Hispanic students initially benefit most from Upward Bound; and (4) many students (about 37 percent) who enter Upward Bound leave the program during the first year. After an executive summary and introductory chapter, Chapter 2 presents data on persistence in Upward Bound, and on the Upward Bound services offered. Chapter 3 details short-term impacts of Upward Bound, including the average impact of the program and groups benefitting most. The concluding chapter summarizes findings, compares them to previous findings, and draws implications for program improvement. Eight appendices provide additional detail on research methodology, data interpretation, and statistics. (Contains 18 references.) (Db).
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Journal of the First-year Experience & Students in Transition written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas N. Harris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (897 download)
Download or read book The Upward Bound College Access Program 50 Years Later written by Douglas N. Harris and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upward Bound (UB) was one of the original federal Great Society programs of the 1960s and remains, fifty years later, the single largest college access program in the country. Recently, Congress has reduced funding and considered eliminating the program because of federal budget pressures and because the first analysis of the only national randomized trial concluded that UB had "no detectable effect." In this study, we explain problems with the study design that have made this conclusion controversial and made it difficult to identify average treatment effects that are unbiased for the program population. The study design is sufficient, however, to test other important hypotheses. We show that UB has drifted away from its original intent of serving disadvantaged students and become less efficient in the process. Specifically, over time, UB has come to serve students whose parents have higher incomes and education levels. Also, program administrators deem students ineligible based on misbehavior and other factors, even though assignment to the UB treatment increases this ineligible group's probability of graduating high school and obtaining some type of college credential by 6-10 percentage points. We show that the program is cost-effective for this group and would reduce achievement gaps if it were better targeted. In short, the government should encourage sites to get back to the program roots of serving more disadvantaged students.
Author : Mona Hanna-Attisha
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0399590838
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book What the Eyes Don't See written by Mona Hanna-Attisha and published by One World. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power. “Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times “Revealing, with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller.” —O: The Oprah Magazine Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water—and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. Paced like a scientific thriller, What the Eyes Don’t See reveals how misguided austerity policies, broken democracy, and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk. And at the center of the story is Dr. Mona herself—an immigrant, doctor, scientist, and mother whose family’s activist roots inspired her pursuit of justice. What the Eyes Don’t See is a riveting account of a shameful disaster that became a tale of hope, the story of a city on the ropes that came together to fight for justice, self-determination, and the right to build a better world for their—and all of our—children. Praise for What the Eyes Don’t See “It is one thing to point out a problem. It is another thing altogether to step up and work to fix it. Mona Hanna-Attisha is a true American hero.”—Erin Brockovich “A clarion call to live a life of purpose.”—The Washington Post “Gripping . . . entertaining . . . Her book has power precisely because she takes the events she recounts so personally. . . . Moral outrage present on every page.”—The New York Times Book Review “Personal and emotional. . . She vividly describes the effects of lead poisoning on her young patients. . . . She is at her best when recounting the detective work she undertook after a tip-off about lead levels from a friend. . . . ‛Flint will not be defined by this crisis,’ vows Ms. Hanna-Attisha.”—The Economist “Flint is a public health disaster. But it was Dr. Mona, this caring, tough pediatrican turned detective, who cracked the case.”—Rachel Maddow
Author : Community Action Program (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Upward Bound written by Community Action Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cynthia E. Partridge
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (956 download)
Download or read book The Impact of TRIO Upward Bound Program Participation on Student Outcomes written by Cynthia E. Partridge and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRIO Upward Bound is the flagship U.S. Department of Education pre-college program designed to assist potential future college students who are low-income, first-generation, or at high risk for academic failure in pursuing and completing postsecondary education. The word TRIO was used by the federal government in the late 1960s for the three original educational opportunity programs: Upward Bound; Student Support Services; and Educational Talent Search. Six additional programs were added by 1998, totaling nine TRIO programs. This qualitative research study examined the impact of TRIO Upward Bound participation length and level on participants' high school completion, college enrollment and success, civic participation, and citizenship practices. The study results revealed that former students found TRIO Upward Bound to be an effective program that not only helped them with the academic and social skills necessary to graduate from high school and complete postsecondary education, but also led to civic engagement and good citizenship practices, such as voting, paying taxes, abiding by the law, postponing parenthood, employment, and community service. In addition, I found that students who remained in the program the longest, completed the Bridge Program (the second level and final phase of the program), and officially graduated from TRIO Upward Bound obtained their Bachelor and Associate degrees at much higher rates than those with less program participation length and level. They also received the highest level of program benefits, which included the bachelor's degree and full time employment.
Author : Le Roy J. D. Chappell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Developing First-generation, Low-income Students written by Le Roy J. D. Chappell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative study was designed to explore the development of academic and social integration that Upward Bound students experience. The context for this growth was explored through a document analysis of archived Upward Bound student evaluation and curriculum materials. Upward Bound tutors were then interviewed about the academic and social growth they experienced as a result of the program. The literature review focused on developing academic and social integration in first-generation and low-income college students. Four conclusions were drawn after analysis of the archived surveys and interviews. First, the primary factor for academic and social integration growth was the challenging and supportive environment the program provides for its students. Second, the secondary factor was that the program equips students with skills that help with college success. Third, a variational change builds on prior knowledge which seems to make the change much more organic and enveloping in the individual. Fourth, a transformational change might lead to a lag (or bounce) in performance.
Author : Christina Restrepo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book UCF Upward Bound Program written by Christina Restrepo and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this research is to explore the perceptions of UCF Upward Bound Program participants using focus groups and pre-posttest surveys in order to assess students' level of understanding of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) related coursework, secondary education preparation in science and mathematics, and their perceptions of barriers to a STEM college education. Also, this study centers on the summer 2010 science and mathematics residential portion of the Upward Bound Program. Program outcomes and effectiveness were evaluated based on the change in student insight of the Upward Bound Program's stake in their secondary education. In addition, pre-posttest measures and interviews allowed a greater understanding of teacher and parent involvement in high school coursework success. Factors that involve self-efficacy, same or other group orientation and perceptions of student college environment were also analyzed. This research facilitated the understanding of first generation, low income and multicultural student's perceptions and what they view as a benefit or a hindrance to entering and successfully completing degrees in post-secondary institutions, specifically in STEM-related disciplines.
Author : Diana Michelle Garcia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Experiences of Upward Bound Alumni written by Diana Michelle Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne-Marie Nuñez
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142892728X
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book First-generation Students written by Anne-Marie Nuñez and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
