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Download full textTuss, Paul – 1993
This study utilized the flow theory of intrinsic motivation to evaluate the subjective experience of 78 academically talented high school sophomores participating in an 8-day summer research apprenticeship program in materials and nuclear science. The program involved morning lectures on such topics as physics of electromagnetic radiation, energy…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Apprenticeships, Enrichment Activities, Field Trips
Groff, Warren H. – 1992
The 1992 component of Emergence of Vocational, Technical, and Occupational Education (E-VTO) focused on preparing strategic thinkers in vocational, technical, and occupational education (VTO) for building learning communities. The E-VTO seminar was one of the two seminars that comprised the VTO specialization of Nova University's doctoral program…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Distance Education
Summerbridge National Project, San Francisco, CA. – 1994
A Summerbridge program is a comprehensive 2- to 3-year academic program with intensive summer and school-year sessions, year-round counseling, and family advocacy and is followed by continued support through high school. The tuition-free program targets talented students with limited educational opportunities who are taught by a faculty composed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Counseling, Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth
Tyler, Margaret Daniels – 1993
A study was done of Summer Research Opportunity Programs (SROPs) sponsored by graduate schools across the nation to encourage minority undergraduate students to pursue academic careers. Eight United States colleges and universities were selected for the study: Purdue University (Indiana), University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, American Indians, Black Students
Miller, Michael F. – 1990
In 1990, Queensborough Community College (QCC) conducted a Pre Freshman Summer Program (PFSP) to improve first-time freshmen's basic verbal and mathematical skills and to ease students' transition from high school to college by orienting them to college life. PFSP services, which included remedial instruction, comprehensive counseling, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Bound Students, Community Colleges
Johnson, Brenda K.; Crawley, Frank E., III – 1991
To what degree do teacher participants in one science enhancement institute intend to use the information in the classroom the next fall? What factors assist this extension of learning? What factors detract from teachers applying new knowledge in the classroom? Sixteen second- to eighth-grade science teachers from a physical and life science…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Beliefs, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Gaffney, Maureen, Ed. – Young Viewers Magazine, 1982
Media specialists and educators considering implementation of child-oriented film programs are provided with useful guidelines and case studies. Following an editorial assessing the myth of the short attention span in children, 10 articles cover the planning, promotion, and implementation of a variety of museum film programs. Included are: large…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Documentaries, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Ruzicka, Susan Helen – 1986
Research was conducted at Camp ASCCA (Alabama's Special Camp for Children and Adults) to investigate the effects of an 11-week outdoor residential camp experience with handicapped campers on their self-esteem, attitude toward handicapped individuals, and locus of control scores of first year counselors with no previous experience. Self-esteem was…
Descriptors: Adults, Adventure Education, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Camping
Ackermann, Susan P. – 1989
The University of California at Los Angeles's (UCLA's) Transfer Summer Program (TSP) is designed to increase the academic achievement, retention, and graduation rates of underrepresented and low-income students and to ease their transition from community college to UCLA. In 1989, a study was conducted to assess the extent to which TSP students…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Educational Counseling
Weva, Kabule W. – 1989
A study was conducted to identify and describe the different mechanisms of adult education services provided by non-university institutions in Canada. Specifically, the study sought to determine which institutions were involved in adult education, which service-delivery modes were most widely used, current trends, and which institutions and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Community Colleges
Farley, Reuben W.; Raychowdhury, P. N. – 1990
The Richmond Area Young Scholars program, designed for a target population of rising seventh grade black students in the Richmond, Virginia area, emphasizes mathematics and physics. Honors topics instruction will be provided by faculty of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and by pre-college faculty who are members of the Mathematics…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Black Students, College Programs, College School Cooperation
PDF pending restorationNguyen, Thuha; And Others – 1987
This is the second of two volumes of a report summarizing participation and achievement information from the 1984-85 school year of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) Chapter 1 Migrant Education Program. This volume presents achievement information provided by state education agencies. Because of language and mobility problems,…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Elementary Secondary Education
Rosenberg, Louise C.; LaRosa, Barbara V. – 1990
The Pre-College Summer Institute (PCSI) program has been in effect at the University of Hartford, College of Basic Studies, since the summer of 1968. PCSI was a five-week, five-days-a-week program designed to evaluate and prepare marginally acceptable students for the college's entering freshman class. Initially, the program was designed to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Bound Students, College Freshmen, College Instruction
Bengis, Laraine – 1986
The Prefreshman Summer Program for academically and economically handicapped students at the City University of New York (CUNY) was evaluated in 1985 and compared to previous evaluations. The voluntary, 6-week transitional program provides intensive basic skills instruction, tutoring, counseling, and financial aid to incoming students who fail to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, College Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
Colorado State Dept. of Health, Denver. – 1985
During 1985 the Colorado Migrant Education Program and the Colorado Migrant Health Program provided a comprehensive health program for students enrolled in migrant summer schools. A total of 1,889 migrant children through age 21 (60% between 5 and 10 years of age) received health screening and physical assessment, referral for diagnosis and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Anglo Americans, Blacks, Dental Evaluation
