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Porter, Stephen R. – Online Submission, 2012
Selection bias is problematic when evaluating the effects of postsecondary interventions on college students, and can lead to biased estimates of program effects. While instrumental variables can be used to account for endogeneity due to self-selection, current practice requires that all five assumptions of instrumental variables be met in order…
Descriptors: Statistical Bias, College Students, Educational Research, Statistical Analysis
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Ackermann, Susan P. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1991
Describes a study of the effects of a summer bridge program on the academic, personal, and social development of underrepresented and low-income transfer students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Tracks 1988 entering Transfer Summer Program students for their first two quarters at UCLA. (DMM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged
Snow, Marguerite Ann; Brinton, Donna M. – 1988
The adjunct model of language instruction is described as it has been implemented at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In this model, freshman English and English-as-a-second-language (ESL) courses are linked with content area courses to better integrate the reading, writing, and study skills required for academic success at the…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing