Project QUEST may decrease postsecondary degree attainment (improvement index -3, two studies, 1,301 students)¶
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q4 i1 One study showed an effect size less than -0.25 on postsecondary degree attainment that was not statistically significant, and another showed an indeterminate effect; the WWC rating is potentially negative effects. → Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) Intervention Report | Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Topic Area 2021
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Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) Intervention Report | Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Topic Area 2021¶
Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) Intervention Report | Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Topic Area. (2021). What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/723
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WWC review of degree attainment across two RCTs (1,301 students). Table 4 reports earned a college degree: 18.20% versus 26.30% (effect size -0.29, p = 0.10) in Elliott & Roder (2017) and any degree effect size 0.14 (p = 0.10) in Rolston et al. (2017); outcome average -0.07.
"The WWC determined that one study that meets WWC group design standards without reservations (Elliott & Roder, 2017) showed an effect size less than -0.25 of Project QUEST on postsecondary degree attainment but this finding was not statistically significant, and one study that meets WWC group design standards without reservations (Rolston et al., 2017) showed evidence of an indeterminate effect of Project QUEST on postsecondary degree attainment."
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Project QUEST may decrease postsecondary degree attainment (improvement index -3, two studies, 1,301 students) |
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Project QUEST may decrease postsecondary degree attainment (improvement index -3, two studies, 1,301 students) |
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