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Research and Assessment
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Since 2005 the LEAP program has conducted research into its impact on students. The results have been strikingly positive. We’ve focused especially on the outcomes the program is dedicated to improving: student retention (that is, the percentage of students returning for their second year), time to graduation, academic achievement, and engagement in the university community. Through a variety of measures, we’ve established that LEAP students outperform their non-LEAP peers in several domains.
- Retention. LEAP students return to for their second year at rates 5-8% greater than non-LEAP students.
- GPA. LEAP students have higher GPAs in their first and second semesters.
- Satisfaction. On the University’s exit survey of graduating seniors, students who participated in LEAP as freshmen reported higher levels of satisfaction with their education upon graduation than did students who weren’t in the LEAP Program.
Our research suggests, then, that intense social and intellectual involvement in a learning community such as LEAP, early on in college, impacts student motivation and engagement.
More detailed discussion of this research can be found at the links above.
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