Claims

An abundance of choices can worsen education decisions, contributing to college dropout when combined with a lack of structure

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims

Reading the evidence codes

q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q2 i? The abundance of choices available to college students for programs of study, courses, and schedules may be contributing to high dropout rates, especially when combined with a lack of structure. → Adam M. Lavecchia 2014

Evidence

Adam M. Lavecchia 2014

Adam M. Lavecchia, Heidi Liu, and Philip Oreopoulos. (2014). Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities. NBER Working Paper No. 20609. http://www.nber.org/papers/w20609

q2 · i? · review · r2

The review reports, citing Scott-Clayton (2011b), an argument that abundant choices in college may contribute to high dropout rates, especially with a lack of structure; this is an attributed argument, not a tested effect, and no effect size is printed.

"Scott-Clayton (2011b) argues that the abundance of choices available to students in college for programs of study, courses and schedules may be contributing to high dropout rates, especially when combined with a lack of structure."

Discussion

Page metadata
Field Value
type claim
id choice-overload-college-dropout-lack-of-structure
title An abundance of choices can worsen education decisions, contributing to college dropout when combined with a lack of structure
description An abundance of choices can worsen education decisions, contributing to college dropout when combined with a lack of structure
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 2014
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-16
trust unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources 1 — adam-m-lavecchia-2014

Frontmatter is the page's machine-readable record — see the Schema & Guide.