Undergraduate engineering students as mentors in an inner-city high school: a pilot program

Undergraduate engineering students as mentors in an inner-city high school: a pilot program

The paper describes a pilot program and intervention implemented in a Harlem high school in New York City during the Summer of 1999. A group of engineering undergraduates worked with over 150 9th graders to improve their skills in mathematics. The pilot is part of an ongoing study investigating the...

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Hauptverfasser: McGourty, J., Lopez, G.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cities and towns
Education
Educational institutions
Employee welfare
Engineering students
Gas insulated transmission lines
Lifting equipment
Mathematics
Recruitment
Testing
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Zusammenfassung:The paper describes a pilot program and intervention implemented in a Harlem high school in New York City during the Summer of 1999. A group of engineering undergraduates worked with over 150 9th graders to improve their skills in mathematics. The pilot is part of an ongoing study investigating the feasibility of recruiting engineering graduates to work in urban school systems.
ISSN:0190-5848
2377-634X
DOI:10.1109/FIE.2000.897574