Success Boston Coaching¶
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Evidence · 6 claims (5 for, 1 mixed) · 1 study (1 causal),q2· 1 of 1 report an effect size · 6 claims rest on one study
Description¶
Success Boston Coaching is a college-access coaching programme run through Boston-area coaching partner organizations to support students' transition to and persistence in college.
Components¶
- Cost profile of Success Boston Coaching: $5,762 per student during scale-up, decreasing to $3,037: The report documents the major resources needed to implement Success Boston Coaching, listing cost ingredients covering personnel, facilities, equipment and materials, direct assistance, and other supports. In the 2015-16 academic year, when the intervention was scaled from serving about 300 students to 1,000 students per cohort annually, "the estimated total cost was $5,762 per student". Without scale-up administrative costs, the cost per student decreased to $3,037 in 2016-17. Funding came from The Boston Foundation, a Social Innovation Fund grant, and coaching partner organizations. (What Works Clearinghouse et al. (2020))
Claims¶
- In the Linkow et al. (2019) scale-up QED, coaching showed no statistically significant effect on cumulative college GPA (effect size 0.01, p = 0.82) [~W] — (also cited [-W])
- In the Linkow et al. (2019) scale-up QED, coaching produced a statistically significant positive effect on second-year college enrollment [+W]
- In the Linkow et al. (2017) QED, coaching produced a statistically significant positive effect on cumulative college GPA [+W]
- In the Linkow et al. (2017) QED, coaching produced a statistically significant positive effect on second-year college enrollment [+W]
- Success Boston Coaching has potentially positive effects on academic achievement, with a significant effect in one study and an indeterminate effect in the other [+W]
- Success Boston Coaching has potentially positive effects on progressing in college, based on two quasi-experimental studies meeting WWC standards with reservations [+W]
Related Products and Programmes¶
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Key Sources¶
- What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. (2020). Success Boston Coaching (WWC 2021-001). https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/708
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Success Boston Coaching |
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Success Boston Coaching is a college-access coaching programme run through Boston-area coaching partner organizations to support students' transition to and persistence in college. |
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