Completing SAILS boosted first-year community college students' enrollment in college-level math by nearly 30 percentage points¶

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q3 i? Using a difference-in-difference design, completing SAILS increased college-level math enrollment among first-year community college students by nearly 30 percentage points. → Thomas J. Kane 2021

Evidence¶

Thomas J. Kane 2021¶

Thomas J. Kane, Angela Boatman, Whitney Kozakowski, Christopher Bennett, Rachel Hitch, Dana Weisenfeld. (2021). Is College Remediation a Barrier or a Boost? Evidence from the Tennessee SAILS Program. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 40, issue 3. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/is-college-remediation-a-barrier-or-a-boost-evidence-from-the-tennessee-sails-program doi:10.1002/pam.22306

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Difference-in-difference analysis of first-year community college students under the SAILS waiver. Enrollment in college-level math rose "by nearly 30 percentage points, with nearly half of new enrollees passing the college‐level course." No standardized effect size is printed.

"Using a difference‐in‐difference design, we find that completing SAILS boosted enrollment in college‐level math among first‐year community college students by nearly 30 percentage points, with nearly half of new enrollees passing the college‐level course."

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