First year experience courses show a statistically significant positive effect on cumulative grade point average after one year, based on one study¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Jamelske (2009) found a statistically significant difference in cumulative GPA after one year favoring first year experience participants. → First Year Experience Courses 2016

Evidence¶

First Year Experience Courses 2016¶

First Year Experience Courses. (2016). What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/662

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Quasi-experimental evaluation at a medium-sized midwestern public university comparing 1,456 first year experience participants with 413 comparison freshmen on cumulative GPA after one year; the WWC confirmed the statistically significant difference.

"The author reported, and the WWC confirmed, that there was a statistically significant difference between first year experience course participants and comparison participants on cumulative grade point average."

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