- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- An analysis of a minority summer enrichment program's capacity to exempt minority students from freshman year remediation, 1995
- Creator:
- Adkins, Brenda S.
- Date of Original:
- 1995-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
dissertations - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a specially designed summer enrichment program to assist African-American students to make a positive transition from high school to college at a predominantly white institution. Success was measured in terms of the number of students who exempted remediation in the areas of English, reading and mathematics on the University System of Georgia's official placement examination, the Collegiate Placement Examination (CPE). The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was used as the placement tool for the enrichment program. Since the Collegiate Placement Examination (CPE) was the final criteria used to place or exempt students for remediation in the University System of Georgia upon admission, it was the only instrument analyzed for this study. The Collegiate Placement Examination (CPE) was administered as a Pre-test at the beginning of the enrichment program and as a post-test at the end of the program. The test was given to measure students success at exempting remediation in the fall quarter following participation in the summer enrichment program. Gender comparisons were not as conclusive since only eight of the twenty six participants in the study were male. The correlational analyses clearly showed differences in the pre- and post-tests for all participants. Findings suggest that there was one noticeable difference in the performance of males as compared to females, in that males made significant gains in the area of reading. This may be significant because in similar studies males are most often reported as not doing as well as females.
Degree type: dissertation
Degree name: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Granting institution: Clark Atlanta University
Department: Department of Counseling and Human Development
Advisor: Herrington, Eugene - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1995_adkins_brenda_s
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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