Supporting a Responsive Transition to High School through a Summer Transition Camp
In this qualitative case study (<i>n</i> = 32), researchers sought to understand the ways a multi-day summer transition camp may help incoming ninth-grade students experience a developmentally responsive transition into high school. The findings revealed camp helped support students’ pro...
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| description | In this qualitative case study (<i>n</i> = 32), researchers sought to understand the ways a multi-day summer transition camp may help incoming ninth-grade students experience a developmentally responsive transition into high school. The findings revealed camp helped support students’ procedural, social, and academic-related needs and concerns. Learning the school layout and policies helped support students’ procedural-related needs and concerns. Promoting student–student, educator–student, and school–student relationships helped support students’ social-related needs and concerns. Attending academic classes and communicating expectations for academic success helped support students’ academic-related needs and concerns. A summer camp may foster a responsive transition and mitigate school failure, but must be developed and delivered based on students’ developmental and transition-related needs and concerns. Furthermore, students must perceive camp activities as actually supporting their needs and concerns. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c208cd33e2804d60953e76714b1acfbc2023-11-18T19:02:12ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022023-06-0113762910.3390/educsci13070629Supporting a Responsive Transition to High School through a Summer Transition CampCheryl R. Ellerbrock0Erin Parke1Jennifer Denmon2College of Education, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USACollege of Education, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USACollege of Education, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USAIn this qualitative case study (<i>n</i> = 32), researchers sought to understand the ways a multi-day summer transition camp may help incoming ninth-grade students experience a developmentally responsive transition into high school. The findings revealed camp helped support students’ procedural, social, and academic-related needs and concerns. Learning the school layout and policies helped support students’ procedural-related needs and concerns. Promoting student–student, educator–student, and school–student relationships helped support students’ social-related needs and concerns. Attending academic classes and communicating expectations for academic success helped support students’ academic-related needs and concerns. A summer camp may foster a responsive transition and mitigate school failure, but must be developed and delivered based on students’ developmental and transition-related needs and concerns. Furthermore, students must perceive camp activities as actually supporting their needs and concerns.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/13/7/629middle-to-high-school transitiontransition programdevelopmental responsivenessschool successadolescent development |
| spellingShingle | Cheryl R. Ellerbrock Erin Parke Jennifer Denmon Supporting a Responsive Transition to High School through a Summer Transition Camp Education Sciences middle-to-high-school transition transition program developmental responsiveness school success adolescent development |
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| title_short | Supporting a Responsive Transition to High School through a Summer Transition Camp |
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| topic | middle-to-high-school transition transition program developmental responsiveness school success adolescent development |
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