A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College
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| Title: | A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Scrivener, Susan, Bloom, Dan, LeBlanc, Allen, Paxson, Christina, Rouse, Cecilia Elena, Sommo, Colleen, Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY. |
| Source: | MDRC. 2008. |
| Availability: | MDRC. 16 East 34th Street 19th Floor, New York, NY 10016-4326. Tel: 212-532-3200; Fax: 212-684-0832; e-mail: publications@mdrc.org; Web site: http://www.mdrc.org |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 162 |
| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Sponsoring Agency: | Robin Hood Foundation, New York, NY. Ambrose Monell Foundation, New York, NY. Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc., New York, NY. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY. |
| Intended Audience: | Practitioners; Policymakers |
| Document Type: | Information Analyses Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Program Evaluation, Community Colleges, Educational Objectives, Community Programs, Low Income Groups, College Outcomes Assessment, School Holding Power, Program Implementation, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators, College Freshmen, Intervention, Sampling, Student Characteristics |
| Geographic Terms: | New York |
| Abstract: | At Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, freshmen were placed in groups of up to 25 who took three classes together during their first semester: an English class, usually at the developmental level; an academic course, such as health or psychology; and a one-credit orientation course. The program also provided enhanced counseling and tutoring and a textbook voucher. Kingsborough's program is part of MDRC's Opening Doors demonstration, which is testing interventions at six community colleges designed to help low-income students stay in school and succeed. Opening Doors is the first large-scale study of community college programs to use a random assignment design of program evaluation. The report concludes that the jury is still out on whether learning communities improve students' persistence in school. The document includes five appendixes: (1) Supplementary Table for Sample Intake and Characteristics and Data Sources; (2) Survey Response Analysis; (3) Description of Scales Presented in Effects on Educational Outcomes; (4) Supplementary Tables for Effects on Educational Outcomes; and (5) Description of Scales Presented in Social, Psychological, and Health Outcomes. (Contains 5 figures and 25 tables. Individual chapters and appendixes contain footnotes.) [This document was written with: Jenny Au, Jedediah J. Teres, and Susan Yeh. Additional support for the dissemination of MDRC publications was provided by The Starr and Citi Foundations.] |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| Entry Date: | 2008 |
| Accession Number: | ED500477 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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