Therefore, in predicting college attendance With the baseline controls in X, without the quadratic terms, with the partition on subject and grade, this gives The predictive
effect on college attendance of 0.51 percentage points is considerably larger than the effect based on within school variation: percentage points.
With the baseline controls, using the factor model, an SD increase in the teacher factor based on test scores has a predictive
effect on college attendance of 0.16 percentage points.
Evidence now clearly shows that these credits have zero
effect on college attendance.
NHRP eligibility has a significant
effect on college attendance patterns.
For example, in my own work with several colleagues, which was partially funded by IES, we demonstrated that providing low - and moderate - income families with streamlined personal assistance to complete the federal college financial aid application had large
effects on college attendance and persistence.
Yet they conclude that tuition tax credits have negligible
effects on college attendance.
Not exact matches
Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper
on the
effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased
college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.
Research (download) also suggests that career academies have a positive
effect on students» postsecondary opportunities including increased
college attendance and increased earnings.
In our study, controlling for the amount of math coursework reduces the
effects of accountability pressure
on bachelor's degree receipt and earnings at age 25 to nearly zero, and lowers the impact
on four - year
college attendance by about 50 percent.
Noble Street
College Prep admits students via randomized lottery, allowing the authors to estimate the effect of attendance on postsecondary outcomes by comparing Noble students to their peers who lost the lottery using college enrollment data from the National Student Clearin
College Prep admits students via randomized lottery, allowing the authors to estimate the
effect of
attendance on postsecondary outcomes by comparing Noble students to their peers who lost the lottery using
college enrollment data from the National Student Clearin
college enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse.
Nor are results much better for attending
college: «While the estimated
effect of charter
attendance on college attendance is positive, it is not large enough to generate a statistically significant finding.»
(p, 18)
College attendance benefits are also fleeting: «Similar to the results for high school graduation, however, control students eventually catch up and make the treatment effects on college enrollment insignificant.
College attendance benefits are also fleeting: «Similar to the results for high school graduation, however, control students eventually catch up and make the treatment
effects on college enrollment insignificant.
college enrollment insignificant.»
Commentary
on «Great Teaching: Measuring its
effects on students» future earnings» By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts
on students, as reflected in
college attendance, earnings, -LSB-...]
We find evidence that charter high schools in both locations have substantial positive
effects on both high school completion and
college attendance.
And it has an even smaller
effect on the results for
college enrollment, reducing the estimated
effect of charter school
attendance by only about 10 percent in both locations.
When the factors are constructed using data
on college attendance, the predictive
effect of a 1 - SD increase in the teacher factor is 0.79 percentage points.
More directly, I can define teacher and school factors based
on the
college attendance data and measure the predictive
effect of the teacher factor
on college attendance.
These estimates are lower bounds
on the predictive
effect of an SD increase in the teacher factor (Gco) based directly
on college attendance.
With the parent characteristics added to the baseline control vector, the predictive
effects for
college attendance based
on the
college attendance of other classes are and.
Repeating the analysis above with these two measures of parent characteristics added to the baseline control vector gives the following predictive
effects for
college attendance based
on test scores which are somewhat lower than the results above using the baseline controls.
Curriculum - based exit exams substantially increased the
college -
attendance rates of students with low GPAs in 8th grade, but had no
effect on students with high GPAs.
This research brief details the
effects of K - 12 school integration
on college attendance rates,
college graduation, and intergenerational perpetuation of poverty.
In the current study we address these issues by analyzing the
effects of charter high school
attendance on persistence in
college and
on earnings in the labor market.
Increasing racial, ethnic, linguistic, socio - economic, and gender diversity in the teacher workforce can have a positive
effect for all students, but the impact is even more pronounced when students have a teacher who shares characteristics of their identity.20 For example, teachers of color are often better able to engage students of color, 21 and students of color score higher
on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.22 By holding students of color to a set of high expectations, 23 providing culturally relevant teaching, confronting racism through teaching, and developing trusting relationships with their students, teachers of color can increase other educational outcomes for students of color, such as high school completion and
college attendance.24
Skeptics could argue that positive
effects on graduation and postsecondary
attendance could be illusorily if schools are setting lower graduation standards and not actually preparing their students for
college or employment.
He is also an expert
on charter schools, having participated in several studies of the
effects of charter schools
on student performance, including a study for the Gates Foundation examining impacts of charter schools in 7 states
on graduation and
college attendance outcomes.
We see small but statistically significant
effects of teacher value - added
on college attendance and
college quality.
Over the past ten years, our research has addressed core questions such as (a) what
effect has the CAHSEE requirement had
on high school completion and
college attendance?
Exploiting the lottery - based admissions process of one technology - focused academy, we then estimate causal
effects of participation in a career academy
on high school
attendance, achievement, and graduation, as well as
college - going.
We use admissions lotteries to estimate
effects of
attendance at Boston's charter high schools
on college preparation and enrollment.
Charter schools and the road to
college readiness: The
effects on college preparation,
attendance, and choice