STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees.

Autor/inn/en	Cohodes, Sarah R.; Ho, Helen; Robles, Silvia C.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research (2022), 54 S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w30227
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w30227
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Bildungsertrag; Schüler; Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Naturwissenschaftlich-technischer Unterricht; Diskriminierung; Arbeitspapier; Jugendlicher; USA
Abstract	The federal government and many individual organizations have invested in programs to support diversity in the STEM pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a suite of such programs targeted to underrepresented high school students at an elite, technical institution. The STEM summer programs differ in their length (one week, six weeks, or six months) and modality (on-site or online). Students offered seats in the STEM summer programs are more likely to enroll in, persist through, and graduate from college, with gains in institutional quality coming from both the host institution and other elite universities. The programs also increase the likelihood that students graduate with a degree in a STEM field, with the most intensive program increasing four-year graduation with a STEM degree attainment by 33 percent. The shift to STEM degrees increases potential earnings by 2 to 6 percent. Program-induced gains in college quality fully account for the gains in graduation, but gains in STEM degree attainment are larger than predicted based on institutional differences.
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Update	2023/1