{"id":14124,"date":"2019-09-10T12:05:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=14124"},"modified":"2019-09-10T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T18:14:14","slug":"community-colleges-improved-stem-persistence-by-10-by-sending-text-message-nudges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/community-colleges-improved-stem-persistence-by-10-by-sending-text-message-nudges\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Colleges Improved STEM Persistence by 10% by Sending Text Message &#8216;Nudges&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Over 21 million Americans enrolled in college in the fall of 2011. Six years later, only about 12.6 million had attained a degree. The current six-year drop out rate in U.S. colleges is 40%, <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/fastfacts\/display.asp?id=40\">according to the latest available data<\/a>. At community colleges, the situation is even starker: under 40% earn a degree in six years. The question of how to improve this situation <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/working-paper-finds-online-credit-recovery-courses-lead-to-higher-graduation-rates-but-theres-a-catch\/\">has plagued higher ed stakeholders and policymakers for decades<\/a>. A joint initiative by JFF, Persistence Plus, and the Helmsley Charitable Trust managed to bump college persistence by over 10% among STEM students at four community colleges. They did it by sending students encouraging text messages, or \u2018nudges,\u2019 via an automated system. The group published their findings on JFF\u2019s site on September 9th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Nudging to Stem Success (NTSS) initiative was implemented at four community colleges beginning in 2017: John Tyler College, Lakeland Community College, Lorain County Community College, and Stark State College. John Tyler is located in Virginia, while the rest are in Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Nudging to Stem Success&#8217; &#8211; How Community Colleges Increased Student Persistence with Text Messages<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The NTSS text messages were sent via an automated system that was tailored to the needs of each individual college. These texts not only sent students reminders, they also asked students questions, received responses, and carried on entire conversations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One text message nudge cited in their report said, \u201cStudents who meet with a STEM professor outside of class find it rewarding and helpful. Will you commit to talking to a professor in the next week?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The authors of the report\u2014JFF\u2019s Lisa Soricone and Barbara Endel\u2014write that this method is based in behavioral science. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">They write, \u201cOur theory of change is this: When students can get reinforcing messages that they belong in college, that they are smart and can be successful, and that overcoming challenges is possible, then persisting to be anything they want to be\u2014such as a scientist in STEM\u2014is possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">To test the efficacy of this theory, they created a randomized control trial that introduced behavioral nudging to 2,700 first-year students at three of the colleges involved. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The following year, re-enrollment rates had bumped up by 7% across the board. Among learners pursuing STEM degrees, the increase was 10%. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">A major concern with NTSS was that students might find it intrusive. Everyone was allowed to opt out of the initiative. Comparing those who decided to opt out versus those who participated, the researchers found further differences. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Just over half (56%) of those who opted out returned to college the next year, compared to 72% of those who kept the service. Among students of color, that figure was 46% (who opted out) versus 62% (who remained in). The effect was also held among students over 25, and remained present over three continuous semesters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">While promising, the duration of the study was too short to come to definitive conclusions about how the NTSS would affect six-year graduation rates. The researchers also provide a further limitation to the study comparing those who had opted in versus those who had opted out: \u201cStudents who chose not to engage with a support service may differ from students willing to receive help, and students who opted out may already have made the decision not to continue in college.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Participants Saw Additional Benefits with Student Responses<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Besides increasing student persistence, colleges also found text message nudging to be a surprisingly effective way to hear from students and gain insights into student life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">For example, \u201cStaff at Lorain found the nudges amplified their efforts to help food-insecure students take advantage of the campus\u2019s food pantry. Within one month of nudging, the college food pantry saw 46 new families, raising the new family proportion of those served from 43 percent of households to 67 percent of households. Use of the pantry from September 2017 to September 2018 increased by 217 percent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Others used the text message system to poll their students, asking, \u201cI wish my college knew \u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">As the authors write, \u201cResponses pushed the colleges to reflect on the supports they were offering and increased their empathy for the struggles that students were facing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jff.org\/resources\/nudging-stem-success\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image: Alex Ware, Unsplash.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 21 million Americans enrolled in college in the fall of 2011. Six years later, only about 12.6 million had attained a degree. The current six-year drop out rate in U.S. colleges is 40%, according to the latest available data. 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