测试社会资本干预对大学生留学率和学业成绩的影响
Emily Hersch1, Alexandra Werntz1, Sarah E O Schwartz2
1Boston, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
American journal of community psychology
|November 14, 2025
概括
联网学者课程通过教授社会资本技能,提高了大学生留学率和毕业率. 这种干预措施可能有助于减少边缘化学生的经济差异.
科学领域:
- 高等教育 高等教育
- 教育社会学教育的社会学
- 学生的成功 学生的成功
背景情况:
- 社会资本,包括人际关系和指导,对于大学生的学术成功和留学至关重要.
- 获得社会资本资源的不平等造成了教育和职业成果的不平等.
- 现有研究强调了社会资本在高等教育中的重要性.
研究的目的:
- 评估连接学者课程对大学生学术发展轨迹的长期影响.
- 确定课程是否有效地教授基于证据的技能,以建立社会资本和指导.
- 评估课程对留学生,毕业率和学业成绩的影响.
主要方法:
- 从一个大型,多元化的公立大学的行政数据的纵向分析.
- 对那些通过了连接学者课程的学生的结果进行比较,与那些没有通过的学生进行比较.
- 追踪关键指标,包括留学率,在4年或6年内毕业,以及累计的GPA.
主要成果:
- 通过连接学者课程与提高学生留学率有显著的关联.
- 完成课程的学生显示,在4或6年内毕业的可能性增加.
- 该课程没有显著影响到毕业时的累积平均成绩 (GPA).
结论:
- 联网学者课程展示了对学生成功的长期积极影响的潜力.
- 这种社会资本干预可以提高大学留学率和及时完成学位.
- 通过提高留学率和毕业率,该课程可能有助于缓解来自边缘化背景的学生的经济差异.
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