Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session VI

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Catherine Cohan, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

Race/Ethnicity

significant association betweenacademic self-efficacy and first-semester grades. It is not known how many weeks a summer bridge program should be to besuccessful (however success is defined) or how many or how few additional supportcomponents during the academic year are necessary to increase retention andgraduation rates. The 11 published summer bridge studies reviewed by Sablan (2014)were stand-alone interventions and not part of larger comprehensive support programs.A stand-alone bridge program may be adequate if the goal is modest, circumscribed,and measured close in time to the conclusion of the bridge program, such as increasingscores on a math-placement exam. However, more long-term and challenging goalssuch as graduation with a STEM