Summer Outreach with Near-Age Peer Mentors: A Randomized Experiment to Improve the Transition to College

Autor/inn/en	Schneider, Barbara; Broda, Michael; Judy, Justina
Institution	Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE)
Titel	Summer Outreach with Near-Age Peer Mentors: A Randomized Experiment to Improve the Transition to College
Quelle	(2013), (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Summer Programs; Outreach Programs; High School Graduates; Peer Teaching; Mentors; Intervention; College Bound Students; Randomized Controlled Trials; High School Seniors; Student Surveys; Grade 11; Grade 12; Urban Schools; Rural Schools; Academic Advising; Counseling; Student Financial Aid; Documentation; Student Records; Longitudinal Studies; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sommerkurs; Jobcoaching; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Peer group teaching; Peer Group Teaching; Schülerbefragung; School year 11; 11. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 11; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Rural area; Rural areas; Ländlicher Raum; Schulen; Akademischer Rat; Counselling; Beratung; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Dokumentation; Schülerakte; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	Although students leave high school stating their plans to continue their education, some lack the information and strategies to successfully navigate a successful transition to college. This paper presents results from a randomized study that is part of a larger, quasi-experimental intervention, the College Ambition Program (CAP). The embedded study targeted graduating high school students to receive additional support through the use of near-age peer mentoring during the summer prior to beginning college. This study expects to contribute to existing theoretical and empirical research on the attrition trends for students expecting to continue on to college during the summer. Given that similar studies have found positive effects for this type of intervention during the summer, and taking advantage of the larger on-going intervention with multiple years of data on students in the CAP treatment schools, researchers examine what type of student is more likely to take advantage of this type of support over the summer. This study is best described as a pretest, posttest, experimental design. Graduating twelfth grade students at the eight high schools in the CAP study who had indicated their postsecondary plans were randomized into the treatment or control conditions. The three primary sources of data are: (1) a senior exit survey that was given to all graduating 12th grade students prior to the start of the randomized study; (2) mentor contact logs that were completed during the course of the intervention; and (3) postsecondary enrollment data provided by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). With respect to participation in the summer intervention, mentors reached out via email and phone to all students in the treatment group. The response rate of actually reaching the students in the treatment group was, on average, just over 50 percent. The study is ongoing at the time of this report. A table is appended. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01