Do Community Colleges Provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?
Do Community Colleges Provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?
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社区学院是否提供获得学士学位的可行途径？
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2008
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Michal Kurlaender
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B. Long;Michal Kurlaender
社区学院已成为想要完成学士学位的学生的重要入学途径。然而，许多人质疑转学功能的可行性，并想知道学生在两年制院校开始学习是否会受到惩罚。作者研究了社区大学入学者的成绩与最初进入俄亥俄州公立高等教育系统内四年制院校的类似学生的成绩相比。作者使用详细的数据集跟踪了 9 年的结果，并使用多种策略来处理选择问题：倾向得分匹配和工具变量。结果表明，直接估计存在很大偏差，但即使考虑了选择因素，最初就读于社区学院的学生在 9 年内完成学士学位的可能性也会降低 14.5%。
Community colleges have become an important entryway for students intending to complete baccalaureate degrees. However, many question the viability of the transfer function and wonder whether students suffer a penalty for starting at 2-year institutions. The authors examined how the outcomes of community college entrants compared with those of similar students who initially entered 4-year institutions within the Ohio public higher education system. Using a detailed data set, the authors tracked outcomes for 9 years and used multiple strategies to deal with selection issues: propensity score matching and instrumental variables. The results suggest that straightforward estimates are significantly biased, but even after accounting for selection, students who initially began at community colleges were 14.5% less likely to complete bachelor’s degrees within 9 years.