Dual enrollment programs have positive effects on completing high school, with an average improvement index of +7 percentile points¶
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q3 i? Two RCTs of early college high schools found statistically significant positive effects on high school graduation rates, including 5-year graduation rates. → What Works Clearinghouse 2017
Evidence¶
What Works Clearinghouse 2017¶
What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. (2017). Dual Enrollment Programs. WWC Intervention Report, Transition to College. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/671
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Systematic review synthesis of two randomized controlled trials without reservations (Berger et al. 2014; Edmunds et al. 2015) including 4,052 students. Table 1 reports an average improvement index of +7 percentile points (range +5 to +9) on high school graduation rates; no standardized effect size is printed.
"Thus, for the completing high school domain, two studies showed statistically positive effects. Dual enrollment programs have a positive effect on completing high school with a medium to large extent of evidence."
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Dual enrollment programs have positive effects on completing high school, with an average improvement index of +7 percentile points |
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Dual enrollment programs have positive effects on completing high school, with an average improvement index of +7 percentile points |
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