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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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/ |