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              New Profit: College Advising Corps
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                College Advising Corps (CAC) strives to increase the number of low-income, first-generation-college, and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education. The program matches recent college graduates to high schools to serve as near peer advisers. Starting in 2011-12, CAC collaborated with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to conduct a randomized controlled trial among Texas high schools.**Study Goals**:The evaluation sought to identify the causal impact of CAC’s program on college enrollment. There was also a second, complementary part of the evaluation to determine how well the program was implemented.**Research Questions**:The evaluation included impact and implementation questions. The research questions were:**Impact Questions:**What is the program’s impact on college enrollment?What is the program’s impact on the pathways to college?What is the program’s impact on school culture?Does the current program engage parents in meaningful and productive ways?What impact has participation in the program had on the advisers’ attitudes and life choices?**Implementation Questions:**How was the program organized?Did the treatment group receive services as planned? What kinds of services did the comparison group receive?Did the types of students actually receiving services have the expected characteristics? Were they eligible to participate?What were the most important ways in which the model as implemented differed from the model as planned?How much variation in implementation fidelity was there across sites? On what aspects of implementation was the greatest variation?What was the cost of the program? Did the cost vary across sites or different types of participants?**Findings:**The evaluation found the following:CAC had a 2 percent effect on college enrollment among all students in its first year, concentrated among Hispanic and low-income students, when other factors were not accounted for in the model.CAC increased two-year college enrollment by 2.4 percent among all students in its first year, with larger effects for Hispanic students of 3.4 percent.There was no statistically significant impact of the program on college enrollment.In the first year, there were no significant differences in four-year college enrollment rates.For more information, download the full report and report brief.

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      Age(s) Studied
            13-17 (Adolescent)
  

      Study Design(s)
            Experimental (RCT)
  

      Level of Evidence
            Preliminary
  

      Researcher/Evaluator
                        Evaluation and Assessment Solutions for Education, LLC (EASE)
  

      Published Year
                        2017
  

      Study Site Location (State)
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