Performance-based scholarships increased the proportion of students meeting the incentivized academic benchmark at all sites except New York¶

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q4 i? In all sites except New York, program group students met the academic benchmark at higher rates than control group students in one of the two first-year semesters, with first-term increases ranging from 7.0 to 9.6 percentage points. → Alexander Mayer 2014

Evidence¶

Alexander Mayer 2014¶

Alexander Mayer, MDRC. (2014). Performance-Based Scholarships: Replication at Six Sites Using Randomized Controlled Trials. SREE Spring 2014 Conference Abstract. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED562816

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Randomized controlled trials at six sites with more than 12,000 low-income students randomly assigned to program or control groups; transcript-based outcomes. The abstract reports "These increases are sizeable," with first-term gains of 7.0 percentage points in Ohio to 9.6 in Florida.

"In all sites except New York, students in the program group met the academic benchmark at higher rates than students in the control group in one of the two semesters. These increases are sizeable."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Performance-based scholarships increased first-year credits earned at most sites, but not in Florida or New Mexico — related
• Scholarship impacts on first-year credits were significant across all analyzed subgroups, with subgroup differences not significant except gender — related
• Second-year credit impacts persisted and grew in Ohio and New Mexico but were not significant in New York — related
• At some colleges the program lowered student loan debt — related
• Performance-based scholarships had mixed impacts on second-semester registration — related
• In the longest-follow-up site (Ohio), performance-based scholarships raised degree attainment by about 3.5 percentage points — related