TRIO Dissemination Partnership Program "A Service Learning Model to Enhance Early College Preparedness and Awareness"

Home>About the Program>TRIO Dissemination          Program Description To train 20 middle school faculty/mentors to work with 20 college-going proteges/tutors in the El Centro school district. Middle school facutly will be trainted by SDSU and imperial Valley College faculty and staff. This training is capacitating the adopting institutions to implement a course-bearing Early Fieldwork Experiecne by setting up literacy centers at El Centro sites, to benefit TRIO studetns. Furthermore, tutoring/mentoring is designed to increadse the sutdetn pariticipation of low-incolme first generation and disability students in post-secondary institutions. The model and procedures used in the training of teachers and tutors will be disseminated via teh ""best practices" model of the Talent Search Literacy model presently used at the Pre-College Institute and the Gear Up! to City Heights Partnership. The evaluation model contributed by IVC was adapted to address the priority of program evaluation and assessment of student outcomes. One hundred studetns will receive in-depth tutoring in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.          Target Population Middle school students and their teachers in three public schools serving 6th-8th grade students in El Centro, CA. Twenty college-going students at Imperial Community College and San Diego State, Imperial Valley Campus.          Date Commenced July 2000 Funding Sources U.S. Department of Education, $600,000+ over three years          Date Commenced July 2000 Funding Sources U.S. Department of Education, $600,000+ over three years          SDSU Contact Persons Blanca M. Escobar Trio Dissemination Program Coordinator SDSU-Imperial Valley Campus 720 Heber Avenue Calexico, CA 92231 Phone: (760) 768-5636 Fax: (760) 768-5589 bescobar@projects.sdsu.edu Veronica Parga Trio Dissemination Adminstrative Assistant SDSU-Imperial Valley Campus 720 Heber Avenue Calexico, CA 92231 Phone: (760) 768-5660 Fax: (760) 768-5589 vparga@projects.sdsu.edu          Goals and Objectives GOAL 1 The TRIO Dissemination Program will form a cohesive consortium of public school, a community college, a university and Cal-SOAP Imperial County to increase acces of TRIO eligible students to college. GOAL 2 To replicate a "best practice" of a TRIO program in order to provide occasion and incentive for institutions and agencies to adapt demonstrably valuable TRIO program components, practices, strategies and activities. GOAL 3 To enable low-income, first generation students to reach challenging academic standard so that middle school students become high school ready, graduate form high school and become universtiy eligible. Choose one of the links below to see a more extensive discussion of the program's goals and objectives. Goals & Objectives Chart Goals & Objectives Narrative          Evaluation The evaluation will address process outcomes and impact outcomes. The process evaluation will result in descriptive and quantifiable information that iwll use management information to assess whether or not key tasks have been accomplished. Quantitative measures will be used to assess the quantifiable education outcomes. The impact evaluation will assess the effectiveness of the intervention strategy on the target student populations. Choose one of the links below to see a more extensive discussion of the evaluation process. Evaluation Tables Quality of Evaluation Narrative