Introduction

Bridges to Success is a course designed to help preparing new students at the Colin Powell School to turn their college experience into personal and professional success. This course’s goal is to help students in:

Developing essential skills and tools for successfully navigate college life and their future career.
Connecting with the opportunities to explore the power of activism at CCNY.
Providing introductory knowledge and access to the fields of Social Science at Colin Powell School.

In this report, data collected from students who completed this course in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 were analyzed, aiming to investigate whether students’ success in college and future career would be beneficial from the materials and lectures discussed in the course.

The student sample at a quick glance

Originally, there were 99 students enrolled in Fall 2021 and 71 enrolled in Spring 2022

Semester	Student Count	Percentage
Fall 2021	99	58
Spring 2022	71	42

The majority of the enrolled students were either of the two races: Black or Hispanic/Latinx.

About 69% of the enrolled students were born in the US, with 29.8% of these students were first generation attending college. Among 31% of the students born outside of the US, 35.7% were first generation in their family to attend college.

70% of the enrolled students were Freshman students, and 11% were New Transfer Students. Most students were from New York City.

About 70% of the surveyed students had not finalize their major at the time being surveyed.

The majority of those who already declared a major reported that it was Psychology.

Most of the students reported choosing their major because they wanted to either learn about such topics or help people.

In Fall 2021, 88 out of 99 students successfully completed/passed the course. In Spring 2022, 64 out of 71 successfully completed/passed the course. The data in the table below did record students who dropped the course early.

##              
##                A  B  C  D  P  F INC WU
##   Fall 2021   39 44  5  0  0  0   3  6
##   Spring 2022 32 26  4  1  1  2   4  0

Fall 2021 students appeared to do better in term of performance compared to those who took the class in Spring 2022.

Assessing Students’ Confidence Level After Completing Bridges to Success Course.

To evaluate the success of the Bridges to Success Course, we assessed students’ level of confidence BEFORE/AFTER completing the course across six (6) different domains:

Students’ confidence in how to access resources (scholarships, fellowships, research, and internship/job opportunities) at the Colin Powell School.
Students’ confidence in understanding the social science majors and departments at the Colin Powell School.
Students’ confidence in understanding the history of City College and how its students have contributed to making the city and country better.
Students’ confidence in networking and self-marketing effectively for their future career.
Students’ confidence in having a polished resume and/or personal portfolio.
Students’ confidence in obtain an internship during their time at college.

Comparison of Students’ Confidence Level in Different Domains between Fall 2021 and Spring 2022.

When comparing students’ confidence level in each domain, a score of 3 was considered as the satisfactory level as the students were rating on a 5-point scale. Any measurement above this satisfactory level was considered as higher confidence level, whereas any measurement lying below this was considered as lower confidence.

Students’ confidence in how to access resources (scholarships, fellowships, research, and internship/job opportunities) at the Colin Powell School.

Students’ confidence in understanding the history of City College and how its students have contributed to making the city and country better.

Students’ confidence in networking and self-marketing effectively for their future career.

Students’ confidence in having a polished resume and/or personal portfolio.

Students’ confidence in obtain an internship during their time at college.

When comparing confident score across students with different college levels, New Transfer Students and Returning Students have lower confident score before the course and tend to improve their confidence significantly after completing Bridges to Success course.

Therefore, if we look at each students’ level of confidence in each semester, Fall 2021 students experienced a decrease in confidence after completing the course although Spring 2022 students experienced a significant jump in their level of confidence after completing the course.

Even so, looking at across both semester, there were an increase in students’ level of confidence across all measured domains. Students in Spring 2022 reported to with stronger improvement in confidence level compared to the those in Fall 2021.

In general, our t-test result indicated a significant increase in students’ confidence level (M = 4.02, SD = 5.18) across the two semester (Fall 2021 and Spring 2022).

## 
##  Paired t-test
## 
## data:  After and Before
## t = 4.4858, df = 89, p-value = 1.081e-05
## alternative hypothesis: true mean difference is greater than 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
##  2.531843      Inf
## sample estimates:
## mean difference 
##        4.022222

## [1] "standard deviation"

## [1] 5.181162

Therefore, we can be sure that Bridges to Success Course DOES HELP students in building their confidence across muliple measured domains.

Do Fall 2021 students’ higher level of confidence after completing the Bridges to Success course would predict in students higher GPA score in Spring 2022?

A scatter-plot somewhat a positive relationship between Fall 2021 Post Confidence score and Spring 2022 GPA.

However, the result of a Pearson confirmed such relationship is NOT SIGNIFICANT.

## 
##  Pearson's product-moment correlation
## 
## data:  bsc_predict_df$post_score and bsc_predict_df$S22_gpa
## t = 0.46487, df = 35, p-value = 0.6449
## alternative hypothesis: true correlation is not equal to 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
##  -0.2520810  0.3923955
## sample estimates:
##        cor 
## 0.07833647

A linear regression results was NOT SIGNIFICANT. There is no evident to prediction of Future GPA (Spring 2022) Based on Post Confidence Score (Fall 2021).

## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = S22_gpa ~ post_score, data = bsc_predict_df)
## 
## Residuals:
##      Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max 
## -1.93567 -0.34465  0.09811  0.51157  0.81331 
## 
## Coefficients:
##             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept) 3.128741   0.280033  11.173 4.31e-13 ***
## post_score  0.007244   0.015583   0.465    0.645    
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 0.6598 on 35 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.006137,   Adjusted R-squared:  -0.02226 
## F-statistic: 0.2161 on 1 and 35 DF,  p-value: 0.6449

Word Cloud for Student’s general opinion

Bridges to Sucess Report

Hanh Nguyen

Introduction

The student sample at a quick glance

The majority of the enrolled students were either of the two races: Black or Hispanic/Latinx.

About 70% of the surveyed students had not finalize their major at the time being surveyed.

The majority of those who already declared a major reported that it was Psychology.

Most of the students reported choosing their major because they wanted to either learn about such topics or help people.

Assessing Students’ Confidence Level After Completing Bridges to Success Course.

Comparison of Students’ Confidence Level in Different Domains between Fall 2021 and Spring 2022.

Students’ confidence in how to access resources (scholarships, fellowships, research, and internship/job opportunities) at the Colin Powell School.

Students’ confidence in understanding the history of City College and how its students have contributed to making the city and country better.

Students’ confidence in networking and self-marketing effectively for their future career.

Students’ confidence in having a polished resume and/or personal portfolio.

Students’ confidence in obtain an internship during their time at college.

When comparing confident score across students with different college levels, New Transfer Students and Returning Students have lower confident score before the course and tend to improve their confidence significantly after completing Bridges to Success course.

Therefore, if we look at each students’ level of confidence in each semester, Fall 2021 students experienced a decrease in confidence after completing the course although Spring 2022 students experienced a significant jump in their level of confidence after completing the course.

Even so, looking at across both semester, there were an increase in students’ level of confidence across all measured domains. Students in Spring 2022 reported to with stronger improvement in confidence level compared to the those in Fall 2021.

In general, our t-test result indicated a significant increase in students’ confidence level (M = 4.02, SD = 5.18) across the two semester (Fall 2021 and Spring 2022).

Therefore, we can be sure that Bridges to Success Course DOES HELP students in building their confidence across muliple measured domains.

Do Fall 2021 students’ higher level of confidence after completing the Bridges to Success course would predict in students higher GPA score in Spring 2022?

A scatter-plot somewhat a positive relationship between Fall 2021 Post Confidence score and Spring 2022 GPA.

However, the result of a Pearson confirmed such relationship is NOT SIGNIFICANT.

A linear regression results was NOT SIGNIFICANT. There is no evident to prediction of Future GPA (Spring 2022) Based on Post Confidence Score (Fall 2021).

Word Cloud for Student’s general opinion

Bridges to Sucess Report

Hanh Nguyen

Introduction

The student sample at a quick glance

The majority of the enrolled students were either of the two races: Black or Hispanic/Latinx.

About 70% of the surveyed students had not finalize their major at the time being surveyed.

The majority of those who already declared a major reported that it was Psychology.

Most of the students reported choosing their major because they wanted to either learn about such topics or help people.

Assessing Students’ Confidence Level After Completing Bridges to Success Course.

Comparison of Students’ Confidence Level in Different Domains between Fall 2021 and Spring 2022.

Students’ confidence in how to access resources (scholarships, fellowships, research, and internship/job opportunities) at the Colin Powell School.

Students’ confidence in understanding the social science majors and departments at the Colin Powell School.

Students’ confidence in understanding the history of City College and how its students have contributed to making the city and country better.

Students’ confidence in networking and self-marketing effectively for their future career.

Students’ confidence in having a polished resume and/or personal portfolio.

Students’ confidence in obtain an internship during their time at college.

When comparing confident score across students with different college levels, New Transfer Students and Returning Students have lower confident score before the course and tend to improve their confidence significantly after completing Bridges to Success course.

Therefore, if we look at each students’ level of confidence in each semester, Fall 2021 students experienced a decrease in confidence after completing the course although Spring 2022 students experienced a significant jump in their level of confidence after completing the course.

Even so, looking at across both semester, there were an increase in students’ level of confidence across all measured domains. Students in Spring 2022 reported to with stronger improvement in confidence level compared to the those in Fall 2021.

In general, our t-test result indicated a significant increase in students’ confidence level (M = 4.02, SD = 5.18) across the two semester (Fall 2021 and Spring 2022).

Therefore, we can be sure that Bridges to Success Course DOES HELP students in building their confidence across muliple measured domains.

Do Fall 2021 students’ higher level of confidence after completing the Bridges to Success course would predict in students higher GPA score in Spring 2022?

A scatter-plot somewhat a positive relationship between Fall 2021 Post Confidence score and Spring 2022 GPA.

However, the result of a Pearson confirmed such relationship is NOT SIGNIFICANT.

A linear regression results was NOT SIGNIFICANT. There is no evident to prediction of Future GPA (Spring 2022) Based on Post Confidence Score (Fall 2021).

Word Cloud for Student’s general opinion