Customized Nudging to Improve FAFSA Completion and Income Verification

Autor/inn/en	Page, Lindsay; Castleman, Benjamin L.
Institution	Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE)
Titel	Customized Nudging to Improve FAFSA Completion and Income Verification
Quelle	(2016), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Federal Aid; Student Financial Aid; Access to Education; Barriers; Low Income Groups; Intervention; Access to Information; Communication Strategies; School Districts; High School Seniors; College Applicants; Telecommunications; Handheld Devices; Technology Uses in Education; Information Dissemination; Student Records; Content Analysis; Regression (Statistics); Delaware; Texas; Texas (Houston) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Kommunikationsstrategie; School district; Schulbezirk; College applications; Studienbewerber; Telekommunikationstechnik; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Informationsverbreitung; Schülerakte; Inhaltsanalyse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	For most students from low- or moderate-income families, successfully completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a crucial gateway on the path to college access. However, FAFSA filing and income verification tasks pose substantial barriers to college access for low-income students. In this paper, the authors report on a pair of interventions that utilize automated, text-based outreach to: (1) provide students and families with customized information about the importance of and their status on completing the FAFSA; (2) simplify information for students and families about how to complete the FAFSA; and (3) connect students and families to personalized counseling assistance to complete the FAFSA as well as the subsequent verification process, if selected. Data from the study points to the benefit of text-based outreach as a low-cost and readily scalable strategy for improving student completion of important college-going milestones, such as timely FAFSA filing. Tables and figures are appended. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01