Collaborative Programs
Research Report
A History of the Project
Donna Linderman
An Evaluation of GEAR UP:
Archival Data Analyses & Student Focus Groups
Corinne Baron-Donovan
C U N Y
GEAR UP
The City University of New York
Office of Academic Affairs
Collaborative Programs
101 West 31st Street
New York, NY 10001
John Garvey
Associate Dean for Collaborative Programs
Stuart Cochran
Director of Research & Evaluation for Collaborative Programs
Donna Linderman
Middle Grades Initiative Project Director
Collaborative Programs Arts Education Director
Corinne Baron-Donovan,
a Collaborative Programs Research Fellow 2004–2006,
is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. Program in Industrial Organization Psychology at The
CUNY Graduate Center. She is presently working on a study of The Discovery Institute at the
College of Staten Island. As part of her graduate studies,
Ms. Donovan has published articles on multiple measure evaluation of
‘training the trainers’ and altering affirmative action stereotypes in the workplace.
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The design and publication of this report were funded in part with a federal grant project.
Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A History of the Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
An Evaluation of GEAR UP
Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Part I: Data Analyses
Section One: Information on Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Section Two: Student Demographic Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Section Three: Information on GEAR UP Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .