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1. Increasing the College Preparedness of At-Risk Students.

Author

Cabrera, Alberto F., Prabhu, Radhika, and Deil-Amen, Regina

Abstract

This study, first in a planned series, sought to examine the aggregate, or overall, impact of comprehensive intervention programs (CIPs) on students' preparedness for college, as reflected in their reading and mathematics abilities. All of the schools in the study were involved in GEAR UP, but it is important to be clear that GEAR UP is something of a prototype. The study focuses not on GEAR UP but on the outcomes associated with the kinds of activities and services it embodies. The analytical focal group was cohorts of seventh graders at 180 California public schools in fall 1999, followed from sixth grade. Of these schools, 47 were CIP schools and 133 were similar "peer" schools. The two dependent variables were the mean scaled scores in the Stanford-9 tests in reading and mathematics. A series of t-tests revealed no significant differences between CIP and peer schools in the benchmark year on a variety of measures of readiness and school characteristics with one exception: CIP school showed lower mean scaled scores in mathematics than peer schools. Any of several reasons might explain the lack of an effect of CIP on reading as well as by the lower than anticipated performance in both reading and mathematics displayed by CIP sixth graders. Results do suggest that in reading, CIP activities and services appear to have had some effect, but gains were modest and not statistically significant. (Contains 2 figures, 6 tables, and 28 references.) (SLD)

Published
2003

2. Increasing the College Preparedness of At-Risk Students

Author

Cabrera, Alberto F., Deil-Amen, Regina, and Prabhu, Radhika

Abstract

GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) emerged in the late 1990s as a comprehensive outreach program seeking to enhance awareness of and readiness for college among low-income middle school students. After controlling for students' preprogram test scores and school characteristics, findings indicate that students participating in GEAR UP and in a comparison group gained in their reading and mathematics test scores. Analyses, however, found no statistically significant 2-year effects of program participation on students' reading scores, although a slight, nonsignificant trend across the study period suggested some closing of the statistically significant gap between the 2 groups in the baseline year.

Published
2006
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4. LIN, a Medicago truncatula gene required for nodule differentiation and persistence of rhizobial infections (1)

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Kuppusamy, Kavitha T., Endre, Gabriella, Prabhu, Radhika, Penmetsa, R. Varma, Veereshlingam, Harita, Cook, Douglas R., Dickstein, Rebecca, and VandenBosch, Kathryn A.

Subjects
Plant immunology -- Genetic aspects, Gene expression -- Research, Mutation (Biology) -- Research, Rhizobium -- Research, Root-tubercles -- Research, Biological sciences, Science and technology
Published
2004

6. Community-based Adaptation: Lessons from the Development Marketplace 2009 on Adaptation to Climate Change

Author

Heltberg, Rasmus, Prabhu, Radhika, and Gitay, Habiba

Subjects
Community-based Adaptation, Development Marketplace, Climate Change, Environmental Economics and Policy, Adaptation
Abstract

The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all proposals; in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of the 346 semi-finalists; and interviews with finalists and assessors. Proposals were fuelled by deep concerns that ongoing climate change and its impacts undermine development and exacerbate poverty, migration and food insecurity. Proposals addressed both local poverty and climate change challenges, and offered a wide range of approaches to render local development more resilient to current climate variability. Therefore, support to community-based adaptation should: exploit its strong local grounding and synergies with development; help connect local initiatives to higher levels; and use complementary approaches to address policy issues.

Published
2010
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10. Comprehensive Interventions and Cultural Capital: Helping At-Risk Middle Schoolers ‘GEAR UP’ for College.

Author

Cabrera, Alberto, Prabhu, Radhika, Deil-Amen, Regina, Terenzini, Patrick T., Lee, Chul, and Franklin Jr., Robert E.

Subjects
AT-risk students, PROBLEM youth, MIDDLE school students, ACADEMIC achievement, SOCIAL capital
Abstract

Two years of data regarding GEAR UP partnerships in California are examined to determine the effect of this comprehensive intervention on students? college readiness. Results of multilevel analyses suggest that the services provided to middle school students do have a positive effect on academic outcomes, specifically math readiness. The authors surmise that such comprehensive efforts are successful in providing alternate cultural capital and access to additional forms of social capital that would otherwise be absent in these high poverty middle schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2004

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