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Curbing Adult Student Attrition Evidence from a Field Experiment by Raj Chande Michael Luca Michael Sanders Xian Zhi Soon Oana Borcan Netta Barak Corren Elizabeth Linos Elspeth Kirkman and Sean Robinson This paper by Michael Luca and colleagues demonstrates how insights from behavioral economics can improve attendance habits among adults in literacy and numeracy programs. In a field experiment consisting of adult learners in England the authors sent behaviorally informed text messages and organizational reminders to students.
The messages led to large increases in attendance rates and the effects persisted over the three weeks of the campaign. This simple intervention provides a low cost approach for organizations looking to improve attendance and engagement. Author Abstract Roughly of adults Poland Mobile Number List in the Organization for Economic Co Operation and Development OECD lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. In the subsidized adult education programs to improve these skills. Constructing a unique dataset consisting of weekly attendance records for students we find that approximately of learners stop attending these programs in the first weeks and that average attendance rates deteriorate by in that time. We implement a large scale field experiment in which we send encouraging text messages to students.
Our initial results show that these simple text messages reduce the proportion of students that stop attending by and lead to a increase in average attendance relative to the control group. The effects on attendance rates persist through the three weeks of available data following the initial intervention. Paper Information Full Working Paper Text pdf Working Paper Publication Date February HBS Working Paper Number Faculty Unit s Negotiation Organizations Markets How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator by Michael Blanding Most negotiation training focuses on what happens before and during the talks.
The messages led to large increases in attendance rates and the effects persisted over the three weeks of the campaign. This simple intervention provides a low cost approach for organizations looking to improve attendance and engagement. Author Abstract Roughly of adults Poland Mobile Number List in the Organization for Economic Co Operation and Development OECD lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. In the subsidized adult education programs to improve these skills. Constructing a unique dataset consisting of weekly attendance records for students we find that approximately of learners stop attending these programs in the first weeks and that average attendance rates deteriorate by in that time. We implement a large scale field experiment in which we send encouraging text messages to students.
Our initial results show that these simple text messages reduce the proportion of students that stop attending by and lead to a increase in average attendance relative to the control group. The effects on attendance rates persist through the three weeks of available data following the initial intervention. Paper Information Full Working Paper Text pdf Working Paper Publication Date February HBS Working Paper Number Faculty Unit s Negotiation Organizations Markets How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator by Michael Blanding Most negotiation training focuses on what happens before and during the talks.