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Download full textSanlyn Buxner; Erin Turner; Ricardo Valerdi; Seneca B. Miller; Christina Baze – Afterschool Matters, 2025
In sports, youth are coached to see persistence and hard work as important paths to personal improvement and success. They come to understand through practice that mistakes are tools to help them improve and that collaboration and teamwork are keys to success in team sports. These ideas about the importance of effort, persistence, mistakes, and…
Descriptors: Athletics, Cognitive Structures, Mathematical Concepts, Self Concept
Direct linkPi-Sui Hsu; Eric Monsu Lee; Thomas J. Smith – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how youth's engineering identity has changed in the process of productive struggle in Making activities in the Midwestern U.S in a summer program. The researchers conducted focus-group interviews, and also administered an Engineering Identity survey as well as the Draw an Engineer Test to…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Self Concept, Youth, Summer Programs
Hannah Edber; Leah Panther; Andrea Crenshaw; Rachael Van Donkelaar; Tenesha Curtis – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
Adolescent youth participating in a summer writing workshop drew from funds of community wealth to answer youth-generated inquiry questions about history, political participation, and equity. By turning to community members as expert sources of knowledge, students deepened their inquiry, their connections to the local community, and their…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Writing Workshops, Cultural Background, Cultural Capital
Betser, Sagit; Ambrose, Rebecca; Martin, Lee – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2023
This ethnographic study examines a girls-only summer maker program designed to empower girls who learned to use power tools to build their own designs. Drawing from theories of identity construction within figured worlds, the article shows how girls in the program authored themselves into roles that run counter to patriarchal notions of making and…
Descriptors: Females, Summer Programs, Shared Resources and Services, Empowerment
Delgado, Alexis M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this research study was to explore self-authorship theory through the insights and experiences of first-generation Latinx undergraduate students who completed a summer bridge program. This qualitative critical single case study focused on participants' unique experiences during a state-funded summer bridge program at a public 4-year…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Undergraduate Students, Summer Programs
Kelsey Watts; Will Richardson – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2024
Women and non-white racial and ethnic groups remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). To achieve a more diverse and equitable STEM workforce, the recruitment and retention of these historically marginalized communities in postsecondary education will also need to increase. Recently, the lens has turned to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inclusion, High School Students, Summer Programs
Dante D. Dixson; Leah Jansen; Ersie-Anastasia Gentzis – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2025
This study examined the role of psychosocial perceptions in predicting academic engagement in a sample of 254 gifted adolescents. Three hierarchical linear regressions were performed to examine if, and to what extent, gifted students' psychosocial perceptions (i.e., hope, academic self-efficacy, academic self-concept, academic motivation, and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
Mayra Puente; Brianna R. Ramirez – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
This article challenges the "remedial" and "developmental" framing of summer bridge programs. The study used semi-structured interviews and focus groups to assess 63 students of Color who participated in a 5-week summer bridge program. Through the theoretical concept of counterspace, findings showed that the intentional…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Summer Programs, Remedial Programs, Self Concept
Timothy Robinson; Adam Kirn; Jenny Amos; Indira Chatterjee – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2023
This multi-methods study explores changes in engineering interest and identity of middle and high school students (n = 79) attending introductory-level engineering summer camps at a large western land grant university. Middle school is a critical time when student interest, identity, and subsequently career choice begin to emerge and hence it is…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Camps, Engineering Education, Middle School Students
Cristina Sofía Barriot; Grace Cornell Gonzales – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
Bilingual teachers of Color navigate many in-between spaces as they forge hybrid teacher identities; Chicana feminist scholars have referred to these crossroads between cultural ideologies, values, and beliefs as spaces of "nepantla." In this qualitative case study, we analyzed the work of 31 teachers from two cohorts of multilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Self Concept, Multilingualism, Summer Programs
Thomas D. Montgomery; Bridget M. Green; Cliff G. Oliech; Jeffrey D. Evanseck – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2024
Colleges are becoming increasingly diverse, including strengthening representation of students with disabilities in STEM (Science, Teaching, Engineering, and Math) fields; however, representation still lags behind national trends. To adapt to this changing demographic and improve representation, STEM college professors must be prepared to grant…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Students with Disabilities, College Faculty, Equal Education
Ramirez, Brianna R.; Puente, Mayra; Contreras, Frances – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2023
Chicana/Latina undergraduate students represent a significant and growing proportion of student enrollment in higher education institutions in the United States, particularly in states like California that have critical masses of Chicanx/Latinx communities. Despite their increasing enrollment rates, Chicana/Latina college students continue to…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Student Experience, Hispanic American Students, Females
Zabrina Songui – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This phenomenological research study investigated how participation in the Educational Opportunity Fund summer bridge program shaped first generation low-income students' learner identity as they entered college. Learner identity is generally defined as a learner's personally and socially constructed roles that influence his or her capacity,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, College Freshmen, Summer Programs
Pichon, Henrietta Williams – Journal of College and Character, 2021
This article focused on findings of case study that explored the use of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" to supplement a service-learning project. The project was initiated in an academic orientation course as a part of a summer bridge program in order to foster a sense of belonging. Data from written reflections and a focus group centered…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Sense of Community, Summer Programs, Self Concept
Hess, Riley A.; Erickson, Olivia A.; Cole, Rebecca B.; Isaacs, Jared M.; Alvarez-Clare, Silvia; Arnold, Jonathan; Augustus-Wallace, Allison; Ayoob, Joseph C.; Berkowitz, Alan; Branchaw, Janet; Burgio, Kevin R.; Cannon, Charles H.; Ceballos, Ruben Michael; Cohen, C. Sarah; Coller, Hilary; Disney, Jane; Doze, Van A.; Eggers, Margaret J.; Ferguson, Edwin L.; Gray, Jeffrey J.; Greenberg, Jean T.; Hoffmann, Alexander; Jensen-Ryan, Danielle; Kao, Robert M.; Keene, Alex C.; Kowalko, Johanna E.; Lopez, Steven A.; Mathis, Camille; Minkara, Mona; Murren, Courtney J.; Ondrechen, Mary Jo; Ordoñez, Patricia; Osano, Anne; Padilla-Crespo, Elizabeth; Palchoudhury, Soubantika; Qin, Hong; Ramírez-Lugo, Juan; Reithel, Jennifer; Shaw, Colin A.; Smith, Amber; Smith, Rosemary J.; Tsien, Fern; Dolan, Erin L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
In-person undergraduate research experiences (UREs) promote students' integration into careers in life science research. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted institutions hosting summer URE programs to offer them remotely, raising questions about whether undergraduates who participate in remote research can experience scientific integration and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
