Within QR placement categories, White and Asian students earned significantly more first-year units than Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students, with gaps most pronounced in Category IV¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2025: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Average units earned by White and Asian students were significantly higher than those of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students within QR placement status. → Bracco 2020

Evidence¶

Bracco 2020¶

Bracco, K., Barrat, V., & Finkelstein, N. (2020). Student progress under California State University's Executive Order 1110: A systemwide analysis of outcomes in 2018/19. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED613408

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Observational analysis of units earned by race/ethnicity within QR placement (Figure 4), using SAS GLM Least Squares Means with Bonferroni-adjusted pairwise comparisons. The report finds White and Asian students earned "significantly higher than the average numbers of units earned by Black/African American students and Hispanic/Latino students."

"The average numbers of baccalaureate units earned by White and Asian students were significantly higher than the average numbers of units earned by Black/African American students and Hispanic/Latino students"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Race and Ethnicity — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

Related Claims¶

• Average first-year baccalaureate units earned decreased with each lower QR placement category, from about 27 units in Category I to about 20 in Category IV — related
• Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students earned fewer first-year baccalaureate units than White and Asian students in every QR placement category in both cohorts — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students were overrepresented in lower QR placement categories relative to their share of the 2018 CSU entering cohort — related
• Retention rates for Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students dropped more steeply between the second and third semesters than for White and Asian students in both cohorts — related