Guaranteed workshop counseling with nudging increases academic plan completion by about 20 percentage points over a business-as-usual control group¶

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Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? First-time community college students assigned to the workshop group with nudging and guaranteed counseling were significantly more likely to complete an academic plan than control group students (38.2% vs 18.8%, a 19.5 percentage point difference, significant at p < .001). → Visher 2016

Evidence¶

Visher 2016¶

Visher, M. G., Mayer, A. K., Johns, M., Rudd, T., Levine, A., and Rauner, M. (2016). Scaling academic planning in community college: A randomized controlled trial (REL 2017–204). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory West. http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs

q3 · i? · causal · r3

Randomized controlled trial of 1,763 first-time Saddleback College students assigned to workshop, one-on-one, or control groups; outcomes from 2015 administrative records analyzed by OLS regression t-tests. About "38 percent of students randomly assigned to the workshop group" completed a plan versus about 19 percent of controls; table 2 prints the difference as 19.5***.

"This resulted in a 20 percentage point difference between workshop group students and control group students and a 23 percentage point difference between one-on-one-group students and control group students. Both differences are statistically significant."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Nudging plus guaranteed counseling increases the percentage of students who schedule and attend counseling appointments — related
• Guaranteed one-on-one counseling with nudging increases academic plan completion by about 23 percentage points over control — related
• Workshop and one-on-one counseling with nudging show no significant difference in session attendance or academic plan completion, though the comparison is exploratory — related
• Group workshop counseling is the most cost-effective option, with the lowest cost per academic plan completed — related