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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
Daniela Ferreira; Louise Lima; Cibelle Toledo; Ariana Cosme – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: This article presents the results of a pedagogical experiment involving 602 elementary school children from the north of Portugal. Based on the principles of outdoor learning, this experience was carried out in a non-formal education context during the post-pandemic school year - Férias VIVES. The aim of this initiative was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Summer Programs, Camps, Elementary School Students
Rachael Botting; Jacob Sorenson; Karen K. Melton; Rob Ribbe Jr. – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
As research on summer camp continues to expand and both scholars and practitioners gain a better understanding of the impact of the experience, it has become important to explore how the experience of summer camp is connected to the larger ecology of youth development. This study explores strategies of Christian summer camps for impacting faith in…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Summer Programs, Camps, Christianity
Direct linkGoodness Madu; Ke Bei; Stavroula Andreopoulos; Martina Steiner – Discover Education, 2025
Introduction: Undergraduate research in science is recognized for fostering positive professional and personal development. Several studies have revealed these gains to be accomplished when research work is embedded in a structured setting, with additional programming. This research examines the implementation of remote programming in the Amgen…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Foreign Countries
Stacey L. Brockman; Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija; Alyssa Ratledge; Rebekah O'Donoghue; Micah Y. Baum; Brian Jacob – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
Detroit students who obtain a college degree overcome many obstacles to do so. This article reports the results of a randomized evaluation of a program meant to provide support to low-income community college students. The Detroit Promise Path program was designed to complement an existing College Promise scholarship, providing students with…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Low Income Students, Community College Students, Program Effectiveness
Christopher Bjork – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
This article analyzes the structure and outcomes of a unique summer bridge program, Exploring Transfer (ET). Community college students who participate in ET spend six weeks living on the campus of a liberal arts college and enroll in two rigorous courses, similar to those offered during the academic year. To assess the impact of this program, the…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness
Robert P. Lubeznik-Warner; Michael Froehly; Taylor Wycoff; Victoria Povilaitis; Luke Cloward; Shannielle Taylor; Seunghee Moon – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: Summer camp is an experiential learning setting that supports youth development. Due to high fees, youth from low-income backgrounds often have fewer opportunities to attend. Subsequently, there is little literature about these youth's camp experiences. Purpose: This research examined growth and the characteristics supporting growth in…
Descriptors: Camps, Low Income Groups, Summer Programs, Experiential Learning
Harper, Kaitlyn; Lu, Stacy V.; Gross, Julia; Obudulu, Chinwe; Wilson, Michael J.; Gross, Susan M. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) is a federally funded program that serves free, nutritious meals during the summer months. In 2019, 6 federal waivers that previously helped sponsors serve meals were rescinded. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to assess the impact of the waiver rescission on the experiences of SFSP…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Summer Programs, Food Service, Barriers
If You Build It, Will They Come and Will It Matter? The Unrequited Dream of a Summer Reading Program
Deborah K. Reed; Huibin Zhang – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2025
The present study evaluated the effectiveness of a non-randomized summer reading program offered by a school district meeting or exceeding all National Summer Learning Project recommendations. The district had 10 years of experience delivering the program to Grades 1-5 students with or at risk of reading disabilities. Voluntary participation had…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Elementary School Students, Reading Difficulties
Karen Ross – Journal of Peace Education, 2025
More than ever, the capacity to engage in discourse addressing challenges we face as a nation is necessary. Young people must be able to navigate complex relationships in a diverse society. Yet, student capacity for constructive engagement across difference in classrooms is limited, and teachers lack the capacity to support students in dialogic…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Peace, Teaching Methods, Dialogs (Language)
Natasha K. Newson; John C. Begeny; Jiayi Wang; Yanitzmarie Polanco Jordán; Robin S. Codding; Kourtney R. Kromminga – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Despite extensive research suggesting the importance of students developing strong foundational math skills during early grades, more than 60% of 4th graders in the United States lack proficiency in mathematics. Such data are influenced by several factors, including summer learning loss in math, negative impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, and a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, Summer Programs, Individual Instruction
Chynar Amanova; Paul M. Wright; Kristin Brynteson – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
Amid growing concerns about students' declining interest and proficiency in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [STEM] subjects, this study underscores the urgent need for innovative educational interventions. It does so by investigating the impact of week-long residential STEM summer camps on the career interests of middle and high…
Descriptors: Career Choice, STEM Education, STEM Careers, Resident Camp Programs
Lijo Thomas – Journal of School Administration Research and Development, 2024
The purpose of this study was to pilot the DREAMS (Desire, Readiness, Empowerment, Action, and Mastery for Success) program, a community-collaborative, after-school intervention program designed specifically to address the holistic developmental needs of students at school. The author originally developed and implemented the program in Kerala,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Summer Programs, School Community Relationship, Adolescent Development
Emily N. Cyr; Kathryn M. Kroeper; Hilary B. Bergsieker; Tara C. Dennehy; Christine Logel; Jennifer R. Steele; Rita A. Knasel; W. Tyler Hartwig; Priscilla Shum; Stephanie L. Reeves; Odilia Dys-Steenbergen; Amrit Litt; Christopher B. Lok; Taylor Ballinger; Haemi Nam; Crystal Tse; Amanda L. Forest; Mark Zanna; Sheryl Staub-French; Mary Wells; Toni Schmader; Stephen C. Wright; Steven J. Spencer – Child Development, 2024
Girls and women face persistent negative stereotyping within STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This field intervention was designed to improve boys' perceptions of girls' STEM ability. Boys (N = 667; mostly White and East Asian) aged 9-15 years in Canadian STEM summer camps (2017-2019) had an intervention or control…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, Summer Programs
Alexis Jones; Xumei Fan; Leigh K. D'Amico; Janice Kilburn; Chelsea Richard – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2025
Kindergarten transition programs support successful school transitions for families and may reduce disparities in academic readiness upon school entry. Yet, access and participation in high-quality summer transition programs are lower among children from disadvantaged backgrounds. This study examined the impact of a summer kindergarten transition…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, School Readiness, Kindergarten
