Summer Bridge Program Structured to Cover Most Demanding STEM Topics

McSpedon, Megan; Saterbak, Ann; Wolf, Michael S.

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“…The Rice Emerging Scholar Program (RESP) is a comprehensive, STEM retention and achievement program aimed at Rice University undergraduates [6]. RESP comprises two parts: a six-week comprehensive summer bridge program occurring the summer before students matriculate at Rice, and ongoing term-time advising and support until a student graduates.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…RESP comprises two parts: a six-week comprehensive summer bridge program occurring the summer before students matriculate at Rice, and ongoing term-time advising and support until a student graduates. Evidence suggests that the RESP program is successful in affecting student retention in college and in STEM [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As described elsewhere, RESP is not a remedial program [6]. Instead, the summer portion of RESP prepares Scholars for the pace, rigor, and depth of the STEM curriculum by focusing on the most challenging concepts covered in the first-year STEM curriculum.…”

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“…During the academic year, RESP supports Scholars comprehensively and proactively [6]. This is achieved through an intrusive and intensive advising model in which all Scholars meet with professional program staff weekly or bi-weekly through their first two years at Rice.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Board # 132 : Selection Process of Students for a Novel STEM Summer Bridge Program

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McSpedon³

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Emerging Scholars Program, an initiative he co-founded in 2012. The Rice Emerging Scholars program is a collection of interventions, beginning the summer before matriculation and extending for at least 2 years and often more, for a group of matriculating Rice STEM students whose preparation for STEM is weaker than those of their peers. All identified obstructions to success are addressed, beginning with a bridge program built around the most difficult scientific topics the students will meet as freshmen.c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Selection Process of Students for a Novel STEM Summer Bridge Program AbstractThis NSF Grantee Poster explores the selection process for Rice University's Emerging Scholar Program (RESP). Developed in June 2012, RESP is a comprehensive summer bridge and termtime advising program aimed at increasing STEM retention, graduation, and achievement in promising students who attended under-resourced high schools. RESP is not a remedial program, nor even an 'early college course' program. Rather, RESP aims to target deficits in K-12 preparation that may create undue obstructions for the program's participants (named Scholars in the program and this paper) compared to their peers. The objective of the non-credit summer bridge portion of the program is to prepare Scholars for the pace, rigor, and depth of the STEM curriculum at Rice University. This is achieved through exposure to the most challenging portions of freshman calculus, chemistry, and physics with special focus on complex word problems. During subsequent years, Scholars receive intensive and intrusive term-time advising from staff devoted to the program.RESP Scholars are admitted to Rice through the regular admissions process. After accepting a spot in the entering class, these students are invited to attend the bridge program in the summer before their freshman year. Scholar admittance occurs independent of consideration for, or participation in, RESP. Scholars are selected through partnerships with Rice's Office of Admissions and other groups on campus. RESP partners with the Office of Admissions to review student admission information including SAT/ACT test scores, SAT subject test scores, first-generation status, academic ambitions and high school competitiveness ranking.A separate principal selection mechanism for RESP is a novel diagnostic exam created in conjunction with the Schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering. The 11-question exam covers conceptual knowledge and tests skills in mathematics, chemistry, and physics with quantitative word problems that students are expected to know prior to arrival at Rice University. By focusing on applied problems and conceptual knowledge, the exam demonstrates a student's academic preparation, not their intellectual ability.The current study examines the validity of the RESP diagnostic exam and its predictive validity relative to standardized tests with a sample of students (N = 976) who matriculated into Rice University from 2012 to 2014. The RESP diagnostic exam...

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Section: Rice University's Emerging Scholar Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rice University's Emerging Scholar Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rice University's Emerging Scholar Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rice University's Emerging Scholar Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Board # 132 : Selection Process of Students for a Novel STEM Summer Bridge Program

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“…The Rice Emerging Scholars Program (RESP) is a comprehensive summer bridge program for a select group of Rice University STEM undergraduates. Founded in 2012, RESP has two major components: (1) an intensive six-week program conducted the summer before students' freshman year, and (2) ongoing term-time support continuing through students' graduation [10]- [12]. To date, RESP has supported more than 200 students.…”

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Differential Effects of Bridge Program Participation on Perceived Belonging and Peer Support for STEM Degree Seekers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Bradford

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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This NSF S-STEM Grantee poster examines the impact of participation in the Rice Emerging Scholars Program (RESP), Rice University's comprehensive undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) summer bridge program, on student perceptions of university belongingness within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Within a quasiexperimental design, the researchers examined whether RESP participants experienced different levels of belongingness utilizing two measures: The Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale, as well as a measure of perceived peer support. Additionally, the researchers examined whether family income impacted students, regardless of RESP program participation. Finally, researchers examined whether family income moderated the relationship between belongingness outcomes and program participation. Results did not support the hypotheses; there were no significant relationships found between RESP participation and sense of school membership (r = -.02, p > .05), RESP participation and perceived peer support (r = .05, p > .05), family income and sense of school membership (r = -.05, p > .05), or family income and perceived peer support ( r = -.06, p > .05), nor was evidence found for family income moderating the relationship between belongingness outcomes and RESP participation. Implications for future work in this area are discussed.

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Summer Bridge Program Structured to Cover Most Demanding STEM Topics

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Board # 132 : Selection Process of Students for a Novel STEM Summer Bridge Program

Board # 132 : Selection Process of Students for a Novel STEM Summer Bridge Program

Differential Effects of Bridge Program Participation on Perceived Belonging and Peer Support for STEM Degree Seekers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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