海外留学计划和学生成果:来自伊拉斯计划的证据
Silvia Granato1, Enkelejda Havari2,3,4, Gianluca Mazzarella1,5
1European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy.
Economics of education review
|April 15, 2024
概括
伊拉斯留学计划不会延迟毕业,并显著提高本科生成绩,特别是在STEM领域. 这种受欢迎的欧洲高等教育流动性计划可以提高学术成绩,而不会对未来的学习或职业选择产生负面影响.
科学领域:
- 高等教育研究 高等教育研究
- 教育的经济学教育的经济学
- 学生流动性研究研究
背景情况:
- 伊拉斯计划是欧洲领先的高等教育海外留学计划.
- 了解国际学生流动的学术和长期影响对于教育政策至关重要.
- 之前的研究对海外留学对学术成绩的影响产生了不同的结果.
研究的目的:
- 严格评估Erasmus学生流动对毕业时间和学业成绩的影响.
- 确定最受益于伊拉斯计划的特定学生人口统计和学习领域.
- 探索驱动观察到对学术成果的影响的潜在机制.
主要方法:
- 实施回归不连续性设计,利用Erasmus参与入学门.
- 分析学生毕业数据,包括毕业时间和最终成绩.
- 考察研究生教育选择和早期劳动力市场结果.
主要成果:
- 伊拉斯计划的流动性不会延迟学生的毕业.
- 参与伊拉斯斯显著提高了最终的本科毕业成绩.
- 对于科学/技术领域的学生,早期申请者和要求较高的课程的学生来说,好处更为明显.
- 当学生参加相对较低等级的外国大学时,对绩效的积极影响更为强烈.
- 没有发现对研究生教育或劳动力市场结果的统计学意义上的影响,毕业后一年.
结论:
- 伊拉斯在国外学习计划积极影响本科生学术成绩,而不会延迟毕业.
- 该计划的好处集中在特定的学生群体和领域,这表明有针对性的支持可以最大限度地发挥影响.
- 调查结果表明,Erasmus经验提高了学术成绩,可能是通过与大学声望无直接关系的机制.
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