Job Corps has potentially positive effects on completing school: more youth without credentials earned a diploma or GED¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3 · i2 medium
Currency · newest study 2008 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i2 Among youth who entered without a high school diploma or GED, 43% of Job Corps students earned one by the 48-month follow-up, compared with 26% of control students — a statistically significant and substantively important difference (Cox effect size 0.33, improvement index +13). → Job Corps 2008

Evidence¶

Job Corps 2008¶

Job Corps. (2008). WWC Intervention Report: Job Corps. What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. http://jobcorps.dol.gov/about.htm

q3 · i2 · causal · r2

Randomized controlled trial, completing school domain, restricted to respondents without a high school credential at entry (n = 8,597). The WWC appendix reports group rates of 47.3% vs 34.4%, mean difference 12.9, effect size 0.33, statistically significant, improvement index +13 percentile points.

"among those who entered the program without a high school diploma or GED certificate, 43% of Job Corps students earned one by the end of the 48-month follow-up period, compared with 26% of control group students."

Discussion¶

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