Dual enrollment programs have positive effects on general academic achievement (high school), with an average improvement index of +7 percentile points¶

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Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r1 · q3
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Two RCTs found statistically significant positive mean effects across multiple high school achievement measures, though not every individual measure was statistically significant. → 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 · r1

Systematic review synthesis of two RCTs including 2,817 students. Table 1 reports an average improvement index of +7 percentile points (range +3 to +13); no standardized effect size is printed. Berger et al. found significant effects on English language arts scores; "The other two outcomes in this domain were not statistically significant."

"Thus, for the general academic achievement (high school) domain, two studies showed statistically significant positive effects. Dual enrollment programs have a positive effect with a medium to large extent of evidence on general academic achievement (high school)."

Discussion¶

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