Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
368 Sam Houston State University (142256)
Principal Investigator: Miller, Andrew D.
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 243,488
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 1/1/23 - 9/30/23
Restricted Research: NO
Academic Discipline: Office of Student Affairs
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Office of Student Affairs
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Bearkat Kickoff
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
CFDA: 84.425
Program Title: n/a
Note:
SAMs 1.1.1: Current orientation programming for first year SHSU students consists of a single day of events in June or July. These few hours have evolved away from academic preparation and community building to more structural administration: academic advising, registration for courses, reservation of residence halls, and coordination of financial aid. There is little time to adequately prepare students – most of them the first in their families to attend college and the majority of whom possess at least one marginalized identity– for the mental, physical, and academic challenges they will face in the coming months. This project will provide effective and comprehensive support and guidance to every incoming SHSU first-year student so that each is adequately prepared for the academic, mental, and social challenges of higher education. This mandatory programming will be designed to ensure these challenges will be met through peer-led learning communities over the course of the week before classes begin.The Fall 2022 cohort of incoming students are serving as the control group in a two-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design, while the Fall 2023 cohort will serve as the experimental group. Designing and implementing a pre- and post-test for both the control and experimental groups will allow measurement of the effectiveness of the programming, provide a strong level of internal validity, and allow for the discovery of confounding variables. Both groups will be both pre-tested and post-tested, allowing the researchers to discern the effects of the programming not only on the population of incoming students, but also on disaggregated subgroups (defined by gender, ethnicity, race, financial insecurity, etc.).
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