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-message coaching program - in a sample of over 3,000 undergraduate students at a large Canadian university. Supplementing … program effects on students' non-academic outcomes, despite estimating null effects on course grades and credit accumulation …
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traditional on-campus college programs. The Colombian context is uniquely suited to study this topic, as students take a … students in online and on-campus programs both across and within institutions, degrees, and majors. Using inverse probability … results suggest that bachelor's degree students in online programs perform worse on nearly all test score measures (including …
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the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult … contrast, interventions that rely on technology to maintain low-touch contact with students can be implemented at large scale … students. We work with a sample of over four thousand undergraduate students from a large Canadian university, randomly …
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mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …
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programs' joining the platform led students to start college sooner and raised the share of students who graduated on time. We … students' ranked-ordered applications, on- and off-platform enrollment, and on-time graduation outcomes. When more programs … graduation rates. High-SES students have greater access to off-platform options, and gains from platform expansion are larger for …
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themselves. We also find that PhD production is negatively related to the total number of students and the share of total BAs …
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This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …
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online option substantially increases overall enrollment in education, expanding the pool of students rather than …
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We study the impact of online degree programs on the market for U.S. higher education. Online degree programs increase the competitiveness of local education markets by providing additional options in areas that previously only had a small number of brick-and-mortar schools. We show that local...
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This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction …. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … versus watching these same lectures in an internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction, supplemental …
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