A counterfactual impact evaluation of a bilingual program on students' grade point average at a spanish university.
Eval Program Plann
; 68: 81-89, 2018 06.
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ABSTRACT
This observational study intends to estimate the causal effects of an English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) program (as predictor) on students Grade Point Average (GPA) (as outcome) at a particular University in Spain by using a Counterfactual Impact Evaluation (CIE). The need to address the crucial question of causal inferences in EMI programs to produce credible evidences of successful interventions contrasts, however, with the absence of experimental or quasi-experimental research and evaluation designs in the field. CIE approach is emerging as a methodologically viable solution to bridge that gap. The program evaluated here consisted in delivering an EMI program in a Primary Education Teacher Training Degree group. After achieving balance on the observed covariates and recreating a situation that would have been expected in a randomized experiment, three matching approaches such as genetic matching, nearest neighbor matching and Coarsened Exact Matching were used to analyze observational data from a total of 1288 undergraduate students, including both treatment and control group. Results show unfavorable effects of the bilingual group treatment condition. Potential interpretations and recommendations are provided in order to strengthen future causal evidences of bilingual education programs' effectiveness in Higher Education.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Universidades
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Evaluación de Programas y Proyectos de Salud
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Multilingüismo
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Éxito Académico
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
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Evaluation_studies
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Guideline
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Eval Program Plann
Año:
2018
Tipo del documento:
Article