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Smith, Bradley H.; Kim, Hanjoe; Esat, Gulden; Izuno-Garcia, Amy K.; Meinert, Allison; Banks Hawthorne, Dejon; Vazquez, Mariana; Gonzalez, Jorge – Journal of Experiential Education, 2022
Background: Summer camps can promote positive youth development. Unfortunately, racial, ethnic, and economic disparities contribute to inequities in camp participation and related research on marginalized youth. Consequently, it is not clear what types of camping programs work best for marginalized youth. Purpose: To conduct a quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Resident Camp Programs, Summer Programs, Youth Programs, Racial Bias
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Bourke, Nicholas; Buskist, Connie; LoBello, Steven – Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2013
Residential environmental education centers are important providers of science curriculum, offering students learning experiences outside the traditional classroom. One major criticism of these centers and other nonformal science centers is that they often do not include student outcomes in the evaluation of their programs. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Science Education, Program Effectiveness, Concept Mapping
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1992
The District of Columbia Public Schools Nature Computer Camp (NCC) is an environmental/computer program which has been operating in the Catoctin Mountain Park (Maryland) since 1983. The camp operates for five one-week sessions serving a total of 406 regular sixth-grade students representing 84 elementary schools with an average of 81 students per…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Environmental Education, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Prom, Sukai; And Others – 1984
The District of Columbia's Nature Computer Camp program, described and evaluated in this paper, was designed to reduce the geographical isolation of economically disadvantaged urban sixth graders, and to provide them with increased knowledge of the environmental and computer sciences. The paper begins by giving details of the program's management,…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Environmental Education
Kaplan, Jay Bernard – 1974
Fifth and sixth grade students from the State College Area School District (Pennsylvania) participated in a 5-day resident outdoor education program to investigate the effectiveness of such a program on the development of cognitive learning processes. Students were divided into experimental and control groups of one fifth and one sixth grade class…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Comparative Testing, Data Analysis
Morton-Watts, Gwendolyn – 1983
This report provides an evaluation, for the school year 1982-83, of the Resident Environmental Classroom project for Chapter I classroom teachers and students in the Cleveland Public Schools. The project is designed to provide students with direct experience with the natural environment, exposure to experiential learning concepts, exposure to a…
Descriptors: Classroom Desegregation, Compensatory Education, Cultural Exchange, Disadvantaged Youth