Highlighted institutions attribute Pell success to deliberate support strategies, with peer mentoring and fixed tuition associated with gains¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on a source with no registered publication record (a web page, book or unpublished report). It is kept because 2 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q1 i? At Smith College, students of color in the AEMES peer-mentoring program are 18 to 23 percentage points more likely, depending on major, to finish a science degree. → Andrew Howard Nichols 2015 q1 i? After Western Oregon University introduced its fixed-tuition Tuition Promise Program, retention rates rose 4 percentage points to 72 percent. → Andrew Howard Nichols 2015 (2)

Evidence¶

Andrew Howard Nichols 2015¶

Andrew Howard Nichols. (2015). The Pell Partnership: Ensuring a Shared Responsibility for Low-Income Student Success. The Education Trust. https://www.edtrust.org/resource/pellgradrates

q1 · i? · associational · r2

Case-study profile of Smith College's AEMES program, which pairs upperclassman mentors with first-year students in lab work and other activities. The report reports participants "are much more likely (the likelihood ranges from 18 to 23 percentage points, depending on the major) to finish with a degree in the sciences"; no comparison group or test is described.

"Students of color who participate in the program are much more likely (the likelihood ranges from 18 to 23 percentage points, depending on the major) to finish with a degree in the sciences."

Andrew Howard Nichols 2015 (2)¶

Andrew Howard Nichols. (2015). The Pell Partnership: Ensuring a Shared Responsibility for Low-Income Student Success. The Education Trust. https://www.edtrust.org/resource/pellgradrates

q1 · i? · associational · r2

Case-study profile of Western Oregon University's Western Tuition Promise Program, guaranteeing fixed tuition for four years, with about one-third of each incoming class participating. The report states "Retention rates have increased by 4 percentage points — to 72 percent"; no causal test is reported.

"Retention rates have increased by 4 percentage points — to 72 percent — and they hope it only continues to climb as more students participate."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Socioeconomic Status — moderator: an instructional effect differs by group

Related Claims¶

• Institutions serving similar students produce widely different Pell graduation rates, indicating outcomes are not fixed by entering-class characteristics — a broader claim this one bears on
• About 35 percent of institutions serve Pell recipients nearly as well as non-Pell recipients, while a similar share have gaps exceeding 9 percentage points — a broader claim this one bears on
• Mentoring strongly influences new teachers' decisions to stay in or leave teaching (review attribution) — related