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Helping Students FIG-ure It Out: A Large-Scale Study of Freshmen Interest Groups and Student Success
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Download full textAulck, Lovenoor; Malters, Joshua; Lee, Casey; Mancinelli, Gianni; Sun, Min; West, Jevin – AERA Open, 2021
Freshman seminars are a ubiquitous offering in higher education, but they have not been evaluated using matched comparisons with data at scale. In this work, we use transcript data on over 76,000 students to examine the impact of first-year interest groups (FIGs) on student graduation and retention. We first apply propensity score matching on…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Graduation, School Holding Power
