Sustainable Bridges from Campus to Campus: Aggregate Results for Engineering Ahead Cohorts One to Three

Abstract

Catherine Cohan, Ph.D. has been a research psychologist for over 20 years. Her areas of expertise include engineering education, retention of underrepresented students, measurement, and assessment. She is currently an Assistant Research Professor and coordinates the Sustainable Bridges NSF IUSE project (Peter Butler, PI). Previously, she was the project coordinator the the Toys'n MORE NSF STEP project (Renata Engel, PI).

Engineering Strong Bridges: Review of College Bridge Programs

“…It was found by Reisel et al [45] that online programs are less effective than on-campus programs; however, as that finding is from 2012, it pre-dates the recent pandemic-driven growth and improvement in virtual programs of all kinds. A number of programs that were established during the COVID-19 pandemic were virtual, and many transitioned from in-person to virtual, among them [19,20,30,46,47,48]. As this transition is recent, long-term data on success is not yet available; such data will also naturally have limitations, as the hurried nature of some transitions and the larger societal impacts of the pandemic present additional variables that impact the efficacy of bridge programs.…”

“…It is also noted that programs may include components that were not noted in the papers, as they were not a focus of that particular paper or because the author(s) felt it was an obvious part of any such program. X X [27] X X X [3,25,21,24] X X [29,8,46] X X [10,11] X X [34,23,36,19,20] X [12,13] X…”