Summer bridge programs are designed to improve retention and academic success among at-risk populations in postsecondary education by focusing on successful skills, behaviors, and high impact practices that promote academic performance.
We talk about this as high impact practices, a cognitive apprenticeship, backwards design, the flipped classroom, authentic learning, student engagement, etc. etc. etc.
The most widely used assessment tools, the VALUE rubrics of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), have advanced the adoption of what AAC&U calls "high impact practices" such as service learning and deliberation.
We know from studies like the National Survey for Student Engagement that high impact practices such as study abroad, internships, independent study, community service and research lead to improved student outcomes.
Our hope is that the research done in the past 20 years regarding the potential of MC to reduce the spread of HIV will be recognized not merely as scientific progress, but as the foundation for an effective transition from knowledge to high-impact practice.
Such integration of services has been recognized as a "promising" high-impact practice for improving access to family planning.
In the National Survey of Student Engagement (Bennett et al., 2007), students deem research experience to be a high-impact practice.
Take a break from high impact exercise.
And high-impact practices here have taken their toll on four of the newest members of the Jets' defense.
The benefits of the flipped classroom to the students are numerous and encourage high-impact practices.
While the use of high-impact practices such as distributed practice is certainly a key ingredient in leading to student learning (Dunlosky et al. 2013), it is important to recognize that students' adoption of these practices requires several antecedent conditions to be in place before this can happen.
