Tag
Longitudinal Evaluation
2 findings
EducationHawthorne Transitory Performance DecayInitial short-term test score gains of 0.28 to 0.47 standard deviations decayed to a persistent gain of approximately 0.10 standard deviations one year post-program, revealing significant transitory effort components.RCTEducationLagged Retention Effects of Relational MentoringEnrollment effects were statistically indistinguishable from zero after two semesters (TOT = 0.072) and four semesters (TOT = -0.077), but grew into a statistically significant 25.1 percentage point increase in college persistence by six semesters (TOT, p < 0.10).RCT