1Cademy - Goal-setting intervention results for the ethnic minority academic achievement gap: retention rate

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Goal-setting intervention results for the ethnic minority academic achievement gap: retention rate

The retention in the control cohorts, after 1 year, differed by 16.1 percentage points. In the intervention cohort, by contrast, the difference was 10.0 percentage points, a reduction of the ethnicity gap by 37.88%. After 2 years, in the control cohorts, retention rates differed by 16.4 percentage points. After 2 years, retention in the intervention cohort differed by 10.7 percentage points a reduction of 34.75%.
The goal-setting intervention therefore appears to have closed the ethnicity gap by approximately 38% in both retention and number of credits earned after 1 year. The ethnicity gap took somewhat longer to close than the gender gap, taking 2 years instead of 1 to close almost completely, by 93%.