Middle Start [microform] : Supportive Interventions for Higher Education among Students of Disadvantaged Backgrounds. Final Report / J. Milton Yinger and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5218437
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Yinger, J. Milton
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED047659
Broken link? let us search Trove , the Wayback Machine , or Google for you.
- Description:
-
- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1970
- 186 p.
- Summary:
-
Since 1964, Oberlin College has conducted a "special opportunity program" for post-seventh graders from deprived backgrounds. Each year approximately 65 students have been brought to the campus for an intensive period of educational, artistic, and recreational experience. This report concerns the post-program educational attainments of the first three summer groups, a total of 195 students. Schools in St. Louis, Mo., and Cleveland, Lorain, Elyria, and Oberlin, Ohio were asked to nominate twice as many individuals from culturally deprived or poverty backgrounds who had some likelihood of success as the program was able to accept. From each school's list pairs were matched as closely as possible, and one from each pair was randomly selected to participate in the program. This study tried to determine whether the summer experience, plus the follow-up contacts with the Special Opportunity staff, significantly improved the likelihood of a person staying in school, attaining good grades, and for the 1964 group, of entering college. Significance was measured against the performance of the randomly selected controls. This report also describes the method that was used for taking account of the quality of the match and examines the importance of networks of "significant others." (AF)
- Notes:
-
- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Bureau of Research.
- Contract Number: OEG-6-10-255.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Oberlin Coll., OH
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1970
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Colleges and Minority [microform] : Poverty Issues. Bibliography and Other Resources / W. Todd Furniss
- Disadvantaged Youth [microform] / Nathan L. Gerrard
- New Mexico title i, p.l. 89-10, esea projects, 1966-1967. annual evaluation report [microform] / Isaac Garcia and Jesse Manzanares
- Public Library Services for the Functionally Illiterate [microform] : A Survey of Practice / Peter Hiatt, Ed. and Henry Drennan, Ed
- Disadvantaged Learner Video Project [microform] : Final Report / Ralph R. Doty