Helping Students FIG-ure It Out: A Large-Scale Study of Freshmen Interest Groups and Student Success

Autor/inn/en	Aulck, Lovenoor; Malters, Joshua; Lee, Casey; Mancinelli, Gianni; Sun, Min; West, Jevin
Titel	Helping Students FIG-ure It Out: A Large-Scale Study of Freshmen Interest Groups and Student Success
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 7 (2021) 1, (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2332-8584
Schlagwörter	College Freshmen; First Year Seminars; Graduation; School Holding Power; Minority Group Students; Outcomes of Education; Academic Achievement; Student Attitudes; Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienanfänger; Abschluss; Graduierung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Schulleistung; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	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 course-level data to account for selection bias. We find that graduation and re-enrollment rates for FIG students were higher than non-FIG students, an effect that was more pronounced for self-identified underrepresented racial minority students. We then employ topic modeling to analyze survey responses from over 12,500 FIG students to find that social aspects of FIGs were most beneficial to students. Interestingly, references to social aspects were not disproportionately present in the responses of self-identified underrepresented racial minority students. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01