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Peer reviewedThurmond, Vera B.; Mott, Antonio – Academic Medicine, 1990
The purpose of this follow-up study was to ascertain the career selections and college majors of 101 minority high school honor students who attended a summer enrichment program at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta from 1979-83, to determine whether the program had influenced their choice of a health-related career. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Black Students, Career Choice, Enrichment Activities, Followup Studies
Direct linkWinkleby, Marilyn A.; Ned, Judith; Ahn, David; Koehler, Alana; Kennedy, Jeanne D. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2009
Despite decades of precollege science education programs, African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans remain critically underrepresented in science and health professions. This report describes college and career outcomes among graduates of the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program (SMYSP), a 5-week summer residential program for low-income…
Descriptors: Health Occupations, Residential Programs, Longitudinal Studies, Active Learning
Download full textMercaldo, David J.; Griffing, Barry L. – 1995
The Regional Inservice Training Model (RIST-M) was used to develop a weeklong inservice summer training program at Idaho State University for professionals working with deaf and hearing-impaired students in rural Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. There were several reasons for offering inservice training on a regional basis: a mission of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Education
Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA. Center for Human Resources. – 1995
The Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) is an innovative 4-year year-round pilot program that provides learning opportunities, development opportunities, service opportunities, and summer jobs to small groups of youth from families receiving public assistance. In 1994, the Ford Foundation commissioned an evaluation of the QOP. Between 1989 and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Organizations, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth
Peterson, Elaine – 1992
Seven Chapter 1 elementary schools in the Jefferson Cluster in Portland (Oregon) Public Schools invited children who had completed second grade to a language arts summer school in 1992. As part of the program, parents were also invited to attend eight sessions on strategies and activities that would strengthen their children's language arts…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Guides, Grade 2, Instructional Materials
Berney, Tomi D.; Simon, Monique S. – 1990
The 1989 Summer Bilingual Program, funded for its third year by tax levy, served 2,365 limited-English-proficient high school students at 14 sites in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. Designed for the substantial number of students who are over-age for their grade, the program offered the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Graduation Requirements, High School Students
Opuni, Kwame A.; And Others – 1990
The 1990 Beating the Odds (BTO) Summer School was an intensive instructional, counseling, and guidance program sponsored by the Houston (Texas) Independent School District for a group of at-risk students in grades 5-9. The program was designed to provide a supportive and nurturing learning environment in which the academic and sociopsychological…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1983
The Austin (TX) Independent School District presents its second report to the Texas Education Agency concerning the Summer School Pilot 1983. It contains a final report summary, a teacher checklist, and an observation followup. The report summary includes the following major findings: (1) retainees who attended summer school and those who did not…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Check Lists, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1982
This technical report documents staff and parent reactions to the 1982 Austin (TX) Independent School District summer school for retainees, provides data on fall teachers' assessment of retainee skills, and describes the nature of the long-term comparison group. A summary of this information plus appendices detailing the purpose, procedures, and…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Grade Repetition
Gardiol, Rita – 1989
An intensive summer training course in Mandarin Chinese designed to help currently employed language teachers introduce exploratory Mandarin Chinese courses to their schools is described. Training current staff eliminated three common barriers to exploratory program introduction: needs for (1) additional teaching staff; (2) additional funds; and…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials, Introductory Courses, Language Teachers
Toledo Univ., OH. Coll. of Education. – 1981
A final report is presented on a summer institute designed to introduce teachers to concepts and techniques for understanding and addressing problems of school climate and teacher stress at four levels: (1) the individual professional; (2) the school arena; (3) the classroom; and (4) the individual student. Sections of this report present…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Moraga, Gebre Yohannes – 1983
An evaluation is presented of summer inservice secondary school teacher education programs given at five colleges of Addis Ababa University in 1982. A survey was conducted focusing on how academic and administrative affairs were operated. The first chapter of this report provides a statement of the problem, identifying the background history of…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Administration
Seiferth, John C. – 1975
During the summer of 1975 the program "Learning to Read Through the Arts" had as its target population 130 Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I eligible children ages 10 to 12 who were performing at least two years below grade level in reading. The students were divided into homogeneous reading groups based on standardized…
Descriptors: Art Education, Arts Centers, Elementary Education, Extracurricular Activities
Roderick, Stephen A.; And Others – 1979
A follow-up study was conducted of summer school programs in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which provided remedial instruction for 378 elementary school students two or more grade levels deficient in reading and/or mathematics achievement. Priority was given to Title I students. Major program elements included small teacher/pupil ratio; relaxed atmosphere;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1978
This report provides background and data from an investigation of New York City's summer youth employment program. It concludes that the program was poorly planned and poorly administered by both the Department of Labor and the city. Although some of the worksites visited were providing useful work experience to enrolled youths, over half of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Aid
