让学生坚持:完成一门入门课程对社区大学生坚持的影响

IF 1.7 4区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS
Dora Gicheva, Julie Edmunds, Marie Hull, Beth Thrift
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摘要

本文研究了退出和未通过网络课程相对于成功完成课程对社区大学生坚持学习的影响。我们将学生随机分配给教师进行鉴定。退出使坚持的可能性降低了大约20个百分点,而失败的影响更小,在统计上几乎为零。退课与机构退课高度相关,这与下个学期返校的可能性较低有关。我们的研究结果强化了学习动力的重要性:即使学生成绩不及格,留在一门课程中也能让他们留在大学。
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Getting students to stick around: The effects of completing an introductory course on persistence for community college students

This paper studies the impacts of withdrawing from and failing an online course, relative to successful completion, on persistence for community college students. We leverage random assignment of students to instructors for identification. Withdrawing reduces the probability of persistence by about 20 percentage points, while the impact of failing is smaller and statistically indistinguishable from zero. Course withdrawals are highly correlated with institutional withdrawal, which is then linked to lower likelihood of returning the following semester. Our findings reinforce the importance of academic momentum: remaining in a course keeps students attached to college even if they earn a failing grade.

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CiteScore
3.10
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发文量
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期刊介绍: Contemporary Economic Policy publishes scholarly economic research and analysis on issues of vital concern to business, government, and other decision makers. Leading western scholars, including three Nobel laureates, are among CEP"s authors. The objectives are to communicate results of high quality economic analysis to policymakers, focus high quality research and analysis on current policy issues of widespread concern, increase knowledge among economists of features of the economy key to understanding the impact of policy, and to advance methods of policy analysis.
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