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Interim Report
National Evaluation of Student Support Services : Third Year Longitudinal Study Results (1994)
Report Number One: Program Implementation
Report Number Two: Profile of Freshman Participants and Project Services
Analysis and Highlights
The Student Support Services (SSS) program provides supplemental tutoring, counseling, remediation and other support services to disadvantaged college students. The aim of the program is to increase rates of college retention and graduation among disadvantaged college students. The main questions to be addressed in this evaluation are:
- What are the characteristics of SSS participants and projects? What services do students receive? Where do these projects fit within the larger framework of campus-wide support services and efforts to improve student retention.
- How effective is SSS in achieving its basic goal of helping disadvantaged students complete college?
- Are certain approaches more effective than others, and how can current programs be improved?
The reports address the first issue described above. The methods employed include a survey of 200 SSS project directors, case studies of support service programs on 50 college campuses (30 with SSS grants and 20 without grants), analysis of project performance reports, collection of student service records, and baseline data from a longitudinal study designed to measure net impact.
The chief findings are:
These findings suggest that stronger links should be established between federal SSS grants and other broad institutional efforts to improve performance and retention of disadvantaged students.
The final report focuses on program impact.
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