Pre-University Courses and Student Performance

Maria De Paola () and Vincenzo Scoppa ()

QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, 2011, issue 2

Abstract: In this paper we investigate whether remedial courses, designed to fill in the gaps in basic skills, bring about any improvement in undergraduate student attainment. Our analysis is based on a project financed by the Regione Calabria, which provided a number of educational/training activities to all freshmen enrolled at the University of Calabria at the beginning of the academic year 2008-09. The problems related to self-selection were addressed both by using the very detailed information we have available on a large number of individual characteristics and identifying a control group consisting of students who had not participated in the activities for various incidental reasons. From our analysis emerges a positive effect of remedial courses on student performance during the first year of their academic career. These results prove robust to use of a matching estimator.

Keywords: Educational production function; Matching estimators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 I21 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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