Do High-Stakes Placement Exams Predict College Success?
This paper analyzes the predictive validity of one of the most commonly used placement exams using data on over 42,000 first-time entrants in a large, urban community college system.
What We Know About Dual Enrollment
This practitioner packet synthesizes CCRC’s findings on dual enrollment outcomes, presents a case study, and lays out guiding questions for practitioners implementing dual enrollment programs.
What Explains Trends in Labor Supply Among U.S. Undergraduates, 1970-2009?
This National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper examines working patterns among traditional-age college students from 1970–2009, considers several explanations for the long-term trend of rising employment, and examines whether the upward trend is likely to resume when economic conditions improve.
Get With the Program: Accelerating Community College Students’ Entry Into and Completion of Programs of Study
This paper argues that to improve completion rates, colleges must help students enter programs as soon as possible; it presents a method for measuring program entry and completion rates using transcript data.
High School Dual Enrollment Programs: Are We Fast-Tracking Students Too Fast?
This NCPR working paper uses a regression discontinuity design to gauge the causal effects of dual enrollment on rates of high school graduation, college enrollment, and college completion among students on the margin of eligibility for dual enrollment participation.
