Improving Multiple Outcomes for Minority Engineering Students: the Math Excellence Workshop at Clemson University

摘要

A longitudinal study of Black students participating in the Math Excellence Workshop at Clemson University has found statistically significant benefit to multiple outcomes. The workshop is designed after the Treisman workshop model, which has been shown previously to be beneficial for minority student development. In addition to the value of adding to the base of evidence supporting the use of this model, the result of this study is significant because of the breadth of outcomes and the length of the period studied. The study compares the performance of program participants to a control group of minority students from the same cohorts and with a similar matriculation profile in terms of age and of a predicted grade point ratio based on SAT/ACT scores, high school rank in class, and quality of high school.