Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness The Effect of Reduced Student Loan Borrowing on Academic Performance and Default: Evidence from a Loan Counseling Experiment Student loan borrowing for higher education has emerged as a top policy concern. Policy makers at the institutional, state, and federal levels have pursued a variety of strategies to inform students about loan origination processes and how much a student has cumulatively borrowed, and to provide students with greater access to loan counseling. Read More EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education Pushing College Advising Forward: Experimental Evidence on Intensive Advising and College Success Growing experimental evidence demonstrates that low-touch informational, nudge, and virtual advising interventions are ineffective at improving postsecondary educational outcomes for economically-disadvantaged students at scale. Intensive in-person college advising programs are a considerably higher-touch and more resource intensive strategy; some programs provide students with dozen of hours of individualized assistance starting in high school and continuing through college, and can cost thousands of dollars per student served. Read More EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education Castleman and Colleague Shed Light on Rewards of 'Credential Stacking' The impact of “credential stacking” among community college students had long been of interest to Batten’s Ben Castleman and his colleague Katharine Meyer, but they became even more curious about it during the pandemic. Read More Research and Commentary, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education, Economics Batten Expert Chats: “How Has Online Learning During COVID-19 Impacted Academic Performance?” with Ben Castleman In one of the most abrupt upheavals in the history of American education, schools across the country have responded to COVID-19 by shifting to online instruction. How has this affected the millions of students now taking classes virtually? Batten professor Ben Castleman, along with his collaborators Gaby Lohner and Kelli Bird from the UVA School of Education and Human Development, will take on this question in the latest edition of Batten Expert Chats. Read More Batten, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness Negative Impacts From the Shift to Online Learning During the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from a Statewide Community College System The COVID-19 pandemic led to an abrupt shift from in-person to virtual instruction in Spring 2020. Using a difference-in-differences framework that leverages within-course variation on whether students started their Spring 2020 courses in person or online, we estimate the impact of this shift on the academic performance of Virginia’s community college students. We find that the shift to virtual instruction resulted in a 6.7 percentage point decrease in course completion, driven by increases in both course withdrawal and failure. Faculty experience teaching a course online did not mitigate the negative effects of moving to virtual instruction. Read More EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education Peter Q. Blair Read More Batten, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education, Economics Parag A. Pathak Read More Batten, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education, Economics From Information to Action: Meeting Virginia’s Critical Workforce Needs During COVID-19 During the most recent Batten Expert Chat, a Batten professor and a graduate of the School’s MPP program shared how they’re using data science to help address the Commonwealth’s shortage in healthcare professionals. Read More EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Health Policy, Education A Conversation with Dean Ian H. Solomon and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney Please join the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy for cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and a conversation titled Leadership for Diverse Communities: A Vision for “One Richmond” with Levar Stoney, Mayor of the City of Richmond, and Ian H. Solomon, Dean of the Batten School. Read More UVA, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness Study: DC Public School’s Teacher Evaluation System Continues to Improve Teacher Workforce As IMPACT enters its second decade, two new studies from team including Batten's Jim Wyckoff provide evidence that the initiative continues to support meaningful improvement in the effectiveness of DCPS teachers. 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