Dual enrollment programs have positive effects on credit accumulation, with an average improvement index of +14 percentile points¶

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Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r2 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Two studies meeting WWC group design standards with reservations found statistically significant positive effects on students' persistence in college to the second year. → 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

q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r2

Systematic review synthesis of two quasi-experimental studies (Giani et al. 2014; Struhl & Vargas 2012) using propensity score matching. Table 1 reports an average improvement index of +14 percentile points (range +13 to +16) for credit accumulation, measured as persistence to the second year of college; no standardized effect size is printed.

"Thus, for the credit accumulation domain, two studies found statistically significant positive effects. This results in a rating of positive effects, with a medium to large extent of evidence."

Discussion¶

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