| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29493 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29493 |
| A Second Chance at Success? Effects of College Grade Forgiveness Policies on Student Outcomes | |
| Xuan Jiang; Kelly Chen; Zeynep K. Hansen; Scott Lowe | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-11-22 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The increased popularity of college Grade Forgiveness policies, which allow students to retake classes and substitute the new grades for the previous grades in their GPA calculations, is controversial yet understudied. Our paper is the first to ask whether such policies benefit students and how. To answer these questions, we use student-level admissions and transcript data from a four-year public institution in the U.S. that underwent two major changes in its GPA policy. We find that Grade Forgiveness significantly incentivizes students, especially students with the strongest academic preparation, to take STEM courses and challenging courses and to enroll in more credits. The increased variations in within-term grades suggest that students may change their effort allocations between courses taken in the same semester and spend more effort on courses that promise a higher grade in return. We also find that repeaters whose first attempted grades are forgiven are more likely to persist in the failed subject and obtain better grades subsequently. Finally, we see an increase in graduation in STEM majors for students who were intensively exposed to this policy. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29493 |
| 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/587167 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xuan Jiang,Kelly Chen,Zeynep K. Hansen,et al. A Second Chance at Success? Effects of College Grade Forgiveness Policies on Student Outcomes. 2021. |
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| w29493.pdf（362KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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