DocumentCode :
306804
Title :
Building little bridges to help students succeed
Author :
Gregory, James M. ; Rivera, John
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Eng., Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA
Volume :
2
fYear :
1996
fDate :
6-9 Nov 1996
Firstpage :
830
Abstract :
The transition from high school to college challenges most students and often produces numerous academic casualties. The Mini-BRIDGE (short course on learning how to learn and understanding factors that interfere with learning) provides students with appropriate learning technology to improve academic performance. It is one of the little bridges that helps engineering students to complete a safe transition to academic life and responsibility in college. The Mini-BRIDGE program was implemented in the College of Engineering at Texas Tech University in January of 1996 to target and help freshmen who experienced law grades the fall semester. Thirty-six students enrolled in the short course. A total of 33 students completed the spring semester and were analyzed in this study. Students who participated in the Mini-BRIDGE increased their grade point average (GPA) by 0.648 points on a 4.0 scale. The number of students with 2.0 or higher GPA increased from 18.2 to 60.6 percent-a 233 percent increase in successful students. Before Mini-BRIDGE all students had less than a 3.0 GPA. After Mini-BRIDGE, 21.2 percent of the students earned a GPA of 3.0 or better, and 6.1 percent earned 3.5 or higher. One student earned a perfect 4.0 GPA
Keywords :
educational courses; engineering education; College of Engineering; Mini-BRIDGE; Mini-BRIDGE program; Texas Tech University; academic casualties; academic life; academic performance; engineering students; high school; how to learn; students; Appropriate technology; Books; Bridges; Costs; Educational institutions; Engineering students; History; Information resources; Process design; Springs;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
ISSN :
0190-5848
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3348-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1996.573079
Filename :
573079
Link To Document :
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