A Mixed Method Approach for Assessing the Adjustment of Incoming First-Year Engineering Students in a Summer Bridge Program

For nearly half a century, institutions of higher education have implemented bridge programs in order to increase the retention and graduation rates of at-risk students (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). In fact, summer bridge programs (SBPs), which typically occur prior to a studentâ s freshman...

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Main Author: Waller, Tremayne
Other Authors: Curriculum and Instruction
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28839
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08312009-145520/