Journal article
The Impact of Dual Enrollment on College Degree Attainment: Do Low-SES Students Benefit?
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol.35(1), pp.57-75
03/2013
DOI: 10.3102/0162373712461933
Abstract
Dual enrollment in high school is viewed by many as one mechanism for widening college admission and completion of low-income students. However, little evidence demonstrates that these students discretely benefit from dual enrollment and whether these programs narrow attainment gaps vis-à-vis students from middle-class or affluent family backgrounds. Using the National Longitudinal Study of 1988 (N= 8,800), I find significant benefits in boosting rates of college degree attainment for low-income students while holding weaker effects for peers from more affluent backgrounds. These results remain even with analyses from newer data of college freshman of 2004. I conduct sensitivity analyses and find that these results are robust to relatively large unobserved confounders. However, expanding dual enrollment programs would modestly reduce gaps in degree attainment.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Impact of Dual Enrollment on College Degree Attainment: Do Low-SES Students Benefit?
- Creators
- Brian P An - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol.35(1), pp.57-75
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications; Los Angeles, CA
- DOI
- 10.3102/0162373712461933
- ISSN
- 0162-3737
- eISSN
- 1935-1062
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2013
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9983980099202771
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