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As funders of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), our primary goal is to identify programs and strategies that can meaningfully improve people’s lives, and, importantly, that can be shown to do so in more than one study across different settings. Because many promising…
Newly-Reported RCT Findings: ASAP program nearly doubles three-year graduation rates of low-income community college students in Ohio, reproducing large impacts in an earlier RCT in New York. Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) is a comprehensive community college…
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of rigorous program evaluations in the area of postsecondary education—including large, well-conducted randomized controlled trials (RCTs). A key reason for this increase has been a major reduction in the cost…