A one-semester learning community program at Kingsborough Community College increased six-year degree completion by 4.6 percentage points¶
Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causalr2·q3
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Subclaims¶
Reading the evidence codes
q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r
the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.
This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.
q3 i? After six years, more students in the learning communities group earned a degree (35.9 percent) than control group students (31.3 percent), an impact of 4.6 percentage points. → Mayer 2013
q3 i? The program also increased average credit accumulation by 4.0 credits over six years. → Mayer 2013
Evidence¶
Mayer 2013¶
Mayer, A. K., Weiss, M. J., Visher, M. G., Sommo, C., Weissman, E., & Wathington, H. D., with Durkin, K., Fresques, H., & Teres, J. (2013). Mixed Results from Six Large Randomized Controlled Trials of Learning Communities in Community Colleges. SREE Spring 2013 Conference. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED563290
q3 · i? · causal · r2
Six-year randomized follow-up of the Kingsborough Community College learning communities trial (sample size 1,534; 769 program, 765 control). Table 3 also reports total credits earned of 56.3 versus 52.3, a 4.0-credit impact marked significant, and no meaningful difference in four-year enrollment (42.4 vs 42.0 percent).
"After six years, more students in the learning communities earned a degree (35.9 percent) than did students in the control group (31.3 percent) — an impact of 4.6 percentage points."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Linked learning communities produced no statistically significant or substantively important effect on degree attainment — related
- ASAP likely increases community college students' graduation and degree attainment rates — related
- Across six colleges, learning communities for developmental education students produced on average only a half-credit short-term impact on targeted-subject credits and no impact on persistence — related
- Short-term impacts on targeted-subject credits varied by college, with Kingsborough's estimated impacts the largest — related
- Experimental research on developmental education is in extreme shortage, with the Kingsborough learning communities random assignment study the most well-known example — related
Page metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
status |
review |
generated |
by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-11-01 |
trust |
unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content |
Frontmatter is the page's machine-readable record — see the Schema & Guide.