Early high school interventions to increase students access to post-secondary education: experimental impacts

Overview

Abstract (English)

The Future to Discover Project was a random assignment social experiment with treatment and control groups that measured the effectiveness of innovative approaches to overcoming these gaps. The project addresses two potential barriers encountered by youth: 1. Lack of information about the potential benefits of PSE, and/or of the ability effectively to make use of available information 2. Financial barriers, including anticipated lack of sufficient funds to attend PSE. Since 2004, we followed 5,400 students recruited during their Grade 9 year. Starting Grade 10, students were provided with enhanced career education or financial incentives (or both) to encourage them to enter college, university or other post-secondary education. Six years of secondary and post-secondary administrative records and surveys from New Brunswick and Manitoba have been linked and analyzed to provide the latest results. The paper covers the interventions, their implementation, the impacts on their post-secondary outcomes and the availability of the data for further analysis by academic researchers.

Abstract (French)

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