Testing the Way Forward: The Impact of Statewide ACT or SAT Testing on Postsecondary Outcomes

IF 2.4 1区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI:10.3102/01623737241241260
Tom Swiderski
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Twenty-nine states require or allow all 11th graders to take the ACT or SAT in school, for free, eliminating access to testing as a barrier to college entry. I examine whether this affects postsecondary outcomes using state-aggregated panel data and time-varying difference-in-differences methods. I find policy adoption led to 2% increases in selective 4-year enrollments by students from treated states. However, adoption had no effect on enrollments within adopting states’ selective institutions, in part because institutions enrolled fewer students from out-of-state after adoption. I also find null but directionally negative effects on the number of graduates from state institutions. Therefore, impacts are small but positive for students from adopting states, but null or negative for adopting states’ institutions.
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测试前进之路:全州范围的 ACT 或 SAT 考试对中学后教育结果的影响
有 29 个州要求或允许所有 11 年级学生在学校免费参加 ACT 或 SAT 考试,从而消除了考试作为大学入学障碍的影响。我使用州分类面板数据和时变差分法研究了这是否会影响中学后的学习成绩。我发现,政策的采用使来自受政策影响州的学生四年制选择性入学率提高了 2%。然而,政策的采纳对采纳州的选择性院校的入学率没有影响,部分原因是政策采纳后院校招收的州外学生减少了。我还发现,采用该方案对本州院校毕业生人数的影响为零,但方向为负。因此,对来自采用州的学生的影响虽小,但却是积极的,而对采用州的院校的影响则是无效或消极的。
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Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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期刊介绍: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA) publishes manuscripts of theoretical or practical interest to those engaged in educational evaluation or policy analysis, including economic, demographic, financial, and political analyses of education policies, and significant meta-analyses or syntheses that address issues of current concern. The journal seeks high-quality research on how reforms and interventions affect educational outcomes; research on how multiple educational policy and reform initiatives support or conflict with each other; and research that informs pending changes in educational policy at the federal, state, and local levels, demonstrating an effect on early childhood through early adulthood.
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