| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18457 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18457 |
| Improving the Targeting of Treatment: Evidence from College Remediation | |
| Judith Scott-Clayton; Peter M. Crosta; Clive R. Belfield | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-10-11 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | At an annual cost of roughly $7 billion nationally, remedial coursework is one of the single largest interventions intended to improve outcomes for underprepared college students. But like a costly medical treatment with non-trivial side effects, the value of remediation overall depends upon whether those most likely to benefit can be identified in advance. Our analysis uses administrative data and a rich predictive model to examine the accuracy of remedial screening tests, either instead of or in addition to using high school transcript data to determine remedial assignment. We find that roughly one in four test-takers in math and one in three test-takers in English are severely mis-assigned under current test-based policies, with mis-assignments to remediation much more common than mis-assignments to college-level coursework. We find that using high school transcript information--either instead of or in addition to test scores--could significantly reduce the prevalence of assignment errors. Further, we find that the choice of screening device has significant implications for the racial and gender composition of both remedial and college-level courses. Finally, we find that if institutions took account of students' high school performance, they could remediate substantially fewer students without lowering success rates in college-level courses. |
| 主题 | Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18457 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576132 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Judith Scott-Clayton,Peter M. Crosta,Clive R. Belfield. Improving the Targeting of Treatment: Evidence from College Remediation. 2012. |
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| w18457.pdf（342KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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