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Direct linkCarlson, Deven E.; Schmidt, Alex; Souders, Sarah; Wolfe, Barbara L. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
In this paper, we leverage the random assignment of a need-based financial aid grant offer--the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars (FFWS) grant--and several sets of administrative records to provide experimental evidence on the effects of the grant offer on students' in-state employment and earnings. For students in four-year universities, our results…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, College Students, Income
Peer reviewedBroda, Michael; Yun, John; Schneider, Barbara; Yeager, David S.; Walton, Gregory M.; Diemer, Matthew – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2018
Light-touch social psychological interventions have gained considerable attention for their potential to improve academic outcomes for underrepresented and/or disadvantaged students in postsecondary education. While findings from previous interventions have demonstrated positive effects for racial and ethnic minority and first-generation students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Intervention, Disproportionate Representation
Download full textBelcheir, Marcia J. – 1997
This study evaluated the impact of a cluster program and the First Year Experience Seminar (First YES) on a variety of student outcomes at Boise State University in Idaho. To evaluate the cluster program, which included 57 students, a control group of 102 students was formed of similar students who were enrolled in the same core courses but not…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Cluster Grouping, First Year Seminars, Grade Point Average
Micceri, Ted; Wajeeh, Emad – 1999
Two studies evaluated outcomes of a University Experience (freshman seminar) course to ease the transition to college and enhance student retention at the University of South Florida. In the first study, course evaluations of "typical" USF students (N=540) who completed the course in fall 1998 were overwhelmingly positive in support of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Dropout Prevention
