Getting students to stick around: The effects of completing an introductory course on persistence for community college students

被引：0

作者：

Gicheva, Dora ^{[1
]}

Edmunds, Julie ^{[2
]}

Hull, Marie ^{[1
,3
]}

Thrift, Beth ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ North Carolina Greensboro, Dept Econ, POB 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402 USA

[2] Univ North Carolina Greensboro, Early Coll Res Ctr, SERVE, Durham, NC USA

[3] IZA Inst Lab Econ, Bonn, Germany

来源：

CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC POLICY | 2025年

关键词：

community college; course completion; instructor effects; persistence;

D O I：

10.1111/coep.12685

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper studies the impacts of withdrawing from and failing an online course, relative to successful completion, on persistence for community college students. We leverage random assignment of students to instructors for identification. Withdrawing reduces the probability of persistence by about 20 percentage points, while the impact of failing is smaller and statistically indistinguishable from zero. Course withdrawals are highly correlated with institutional withdrawal, which is then linked to lower likelihood of returning the following semester. Our findings reinforce the importance of academic momentum: remaining in a course keeps students attached to college even if they earn a failing grade.

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