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

• Autores principales: Lovenoor Aulck (Autor), Joshua Malters (Autor), Casey Lee (Autor), Gianni Mancinelli (Autor), Min Sun (Autor), Jevin West (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: SAGE Publishing, 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Materias: article
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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....