Enhancing Minority Student Retention and Academic Performance
What We Can Learn from Program Evaluations
Published on 12. March 2012
400 pages
978-1-118-21867-9 (ISBN)
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In this important resource, Dr. Fleming (a noted expert in the field of minority retention) draws on educational evaluations she has developed in the course of her distinguished career. This book analyzes the common factors and the role institutional characteristics play in minority student retention to show what really works in increasing academic performance among minority students and includes models of evaluations that describe successful programs that use statistical methods to verify outcomes.
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Jacqueline Fleming
Enhancing Minority Student Retention and Academic Performance
What We Can Learn from Program Evaluations
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04/2012
Jossey-Bass
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Jacqueline Fleming is an internationally known psychologist, scholar, and researcher in the area of minority student retention and achievement. She has served in a number of positions at historically black Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, including visiting associate professor of psychology, associate professor of education, learning specialist, retention officer, associate director of Student Success Services, and director of the General University Academic Center. She is the award-winning author of Blacks in College, from Jossey-Bass.
Content
Preface ix
About the Author xiii
1 Overview 1
PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE: AS THEY ENTER HIGHER EDUCATION15
2 Success Factors in the Academic Performance of Inner-CityYouth: Project Forward Leap 17
3 How Perceptions of Racial Climate Affect Academic Adjustmentand Learning 34
PART TWO: PROGRAMS IN MATH, SCIENCE, AND ENGINEERING49
4 What Successful Students in Science Know About Learning:Gateway to Higher Education 51
5 Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Academic Performance:Summer Bridge for Entering Minority Engineering Students atCalifornia State University at Northridge 62
6 Retaining Students in Engineering at the City College of NewYork: How a Successful Program Works 74
7 Enhancing Learning in Science Programs at the City College ofNew York 86
8 Preparing Minority Students to Compete at the Cutting Edge:The CCNY CREST Center 102
9 Who Will Do Math, Science, Engineering, and Technology?Academic Achievement Among Minority Students in SeventeenInstitutions 120
With Dawn R. Person
10 Doubling the Number of Minority Students in Science,Engineering, and Math: The Xavier University of Louisiana Alliancefor Minority Participation 135
With Carole Morning
PART THREE: PROGRAMS AT MINORITY-SERVING UNIVERSITIES155
11 The 4th Hour Algebra Project: University of Texas, PanAmerican 157
With J. Rene Torres
12 Why Good Students Drop Out: Retention and Performance ofHonors Students at Texas Southern University 170
13 When Underprepared Students Stay in College: The Fast TrackProgram at Texas Southern University 184
14 Problem-Solving Instruction: How Much Is Enough to IncreaseVerbal and Analytical Skills in Minority Students? 201
15 Does Multicultural Content Make a Difference in the ReadingComprehension Performance of African American Students? ProjectGRAD at Texas Southern University 219
16 Multicultural Content and the Mathematics Performance ofAfrican American Students at Texas Southern University 233
With Jason Guo
PART FOUR: CONCLUSION 245
17 Enhancing the Performance of Minorities: Lessons from ProgramEvaluation 247
APPENDICES
2 Project Forward Leap--Methodological Details 281
3 The Racial Climate at Eastern University--InterviewQuestions 285
4 Gateway to Higher Education--Methodological Details287
5 Summer Bridge for Entering Minority Engineering Students atCalifornia State University at Northridge--MethodologicalDetails 292
6 Retaining Students in Engineering at the City College of NewYork--Methodological Details 295
7 Science Programs at the City College of NewYork--Methodological Details 300
8 The CCNY CREST Center--Methodological Details 305
9 Who Will Do Math, Science, Engineering, andTechnology?--Methodological Details 307
10 The Xavier University of Louisiana Alliance for MinorityParticipation--Methodological Details 311
11 The 4th Hour Algebra Project--Methodological Details313
12 Retention and Performance of Honors Students at TexasSouthern University--Methodological Details 316
13 The Fast Track Program at Texas SouthernUniversity--Methodological Details 319
14 Problem-Solving Instruction--Methodological Details323
15 Does Multicultural Content Make a Difference in the ReadingComprehension Performance of African AmericanStudents?--Methodological Details 329
16 Multicultural Content and the Mathematics Performance ofAfrican American Students at Texas SouthernUniversity--Methodological Details 333
References 339
Subject Index 371
Name Index 377
