Summer counseling has mixed effects on college access and enrollment for recent high school graduates, with a domain-average improvement index of +5 percentile points¶
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q3 i? Across five RCTs including 13,614 students, effects on college access and enrollment were positive and statistically significant in one study, substantively important in one, and indeterminate in three, yielding a mixed-effects rating. → Summer Counseling 2018
Evidence¶
Summer Counseling 2018¶
Summer Counseling. (2018). What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report, Transition to College. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/693
q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r2
Systematic WWC review of five randomized controlled trials meeting group design standards without reservations, covering 13,614 recent high school graduates in 10 locations. The review rated the domain as "Mixed effects"; the appendix tables print a domain-average effect size of 0.13 and improvement index of +5 across all studies.
"In the five studies that reported findings, the estimated impact of the intervention on outcomes in the college access and enrollment domain was positive and statistically significant in one study, positive and substantively important in one study, and indeterminate in three other studies."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
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- In the Castleman et al. (2012) RCT, summer counseling showed a substantively important positive effect on fall college enrollment despite non-significant test statistics — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Three of the five reviewed RCTs found no statistically significant effect of summer counseling on fall college enrollment (indeterminate effects) — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Summer counseling produces a small but statistically significant positive effect on credit accumulation and persistence (WWC rating: potentially positive effects) — related
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Summer counseling has mixed effects on college access and enrollment for recent high school graduates, with a domain-average improvement index of +5 percentile points |
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Summer counseling has mixed effects on college access and enrollment for recent high school graduates, with a domain-average improvement index of +5 percentile points |
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2018 |
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