Pathways to college and STEM careers: enhancing the high school experience.

ABSTRACT: With a rising demand for a college degree and an increasingly complicated college search, application, and selection process, there are a number of interventions designed to ease the college-going process for adolescents and their families. One such intervention, the College Ambition Program (CAP), is specifically designed to be a whole-school intervention that comprehensively connects several important aspects of the college-going process and specifically is focused on increasing interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). With many adolescents having interest in STEM careers but lacking knowledge of how to transform these interests into plans, CAP supports students in developing and pursuing their educational and occupational goals. CAP offers students tutoring and men

SUBMITTER: Schneider B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4135439 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature