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Impact of the Chicago Scholars Program: Randomized Controlled Trial
No full textThis study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Chicago Scholars program, a comprehensive support program which aims to increase on-time matriculation, persistence, and college graduation rates for low-income, first-generation, and under-represented minority youth in Chicago. This study initiated at Chapin Hall. It transferred to NORC at the University of Chicago in 2024 when key personnel and the Institute for Education Sciences study grant transitioned to NORC.
The project is a partnership with Chicago Scholars. The Chicago Scholars model seeks to reduce barriers to college preparation, enrollment, and success by providing a 7-year intervention that begins the junior year of high school and extends through and past college. The project will inform the evidence base for what works to support postsecondary success for students historically underrepresented among postsecondary education graduates.
The study addresses the following research questions: 1) What is the impact of Chicago Scholars on on-time college enrollment and college persistence for students that are college-ready but have risk factors related to low-income or first-generation status, relative to other college counseling, transition, and success supports these students have available? 2) How does Chicago Scholars’ implementation of their model provide new or additional resources to student college trajectories relative to other resources?
This study assesses two primary outcomes of postsecondary success within its 5-year period: (1) on-time matriculation and (2) college persistence; and two additional indicators related to student success: (3) quality of match and (4) college track record of graduating students with similar demographics. The outcome study will be supplemented by an implementation analysis to measure program fidelity and a cost analysis. The evaluation will use administrative data and program data to assess the program impact on student outcomes over a 5-year period. Our analysis will also assess costs and cost-effectiveness
Labeler Characteristics Bias
No full textThe goal of this study is to understand the emergence of demographic biases in data annotation tasks. Researchers often ask research assistants or crowdsourced workers to annotate text (e.g. news articles, social media posts), images, and other pieces of data; either for direct analysis or to train machine learning models. Performance across annotators is often evaluated using common inter-rater reliability (IRR) statistics, and when IRR is satisfactory, researchers move on in using the manual annotations for their analyses or training their models. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that individual characteristics of manual annotators (e.g. gender and ideology) may lead to systematic differences in the annotation process. In addition, although coding-training may help substantially reduce such biases for some annotation tasks, they may not work as well in other contexts
Exp.2: Emotion responses following failed goal-directed actions
No full textExperiment 2: We ask whether infants have expectations about emotion responses following goal-directed actions using happy vs. angry emotion responses
Lecture video quality (No freezing vs 5-second freezing duration vs 15-second freezing duration)
No full textThis study will examine the effect of lecture video quality on individuals' learning experience
Attention allocation in musical interaction - UPDATE
No full textThis is an update to our original preregistration: Gugnowska et al. (2022, March 17). Attention allocation in musical interaction. Retrieved from: osf.io/weqc8
Status and virtual interaction: the effect of gender status bias in video conferencing
No full textThis research mainly asks whether we can observe the gender status effect in virtual interaction through video conferencing as it does in face-to-face interaction. It aims not only to test how existing status theory can be applied in a new societal condition, digitalisation, but also to have a better understanding of whether the prevalent use of video conferencing today may contribute to gender inequality
Disentangling Double Prevention Experiment 1
No full textIn this experiment we will test causal judgments of the productive factor and the double preventer in three instances of double prevention. In the base case (as in Henne & O'Neill, 2022), Mike (the productive factor) drops a bottle. Jack (the possible preventer) sees that the bottle is falling, and aims to catch it. However, Peter (the double preventer) accidentally knocks into Jack, preventing him from catching the bottle. In this case, causal judgments of the productive factor are typically higher than those of the double preventer. In addition to replicating this base case, here we will test two new cases motivated by predictions made by the Necessity-Sufficiency model (Icard, Kominsky, & Knobe, 2017) and the Counterfactual Effect Size model (Quillien, 2020).
First, we will test a reversal case where productive factor and possible preventer are normal but the double preventer is abnormal, in which both models predict that people will give higher causal judgments of the double preventer than the productive factor.
Second, we will test an adversarial case where the productive factor is normal but the possible preventer and the double preventer are abnormal. In this case, the Necessity-Sufficiency model predicts no difference in causal judgments of the productive factor and double preventer, whereas the Counterfactual Effect Size model predicts a strong preference for the productive factor
Social Network Analysis of Muslim Youth: The Induction of Civic Engagement
No full textThe primary aim of many community centers and educational programs designed for Muslim youth is to help them engage in civic behavior and develop civic beliefs that persist into adulthood. Yet little is known about what precisely civic identity means to Muslim youth today and how programs and practices designed to affirm Muslim youth affect civic engagement. This study investigates whether and how Muslim youths’ social networks—the system of interpersonal relationships in which individuals are embedded—change over the course of their participation in a weekend-long, annual scholastic tournament for high school students. Accordingly, the primary aim of this study is to explore whether and how participating in a national high school program designed to affirm religious identity builds students’ social networks—the system of interpersonal relationships in which individuals are embedded—and whether these networks positively affect students’ civic behavior in their daily lives. This registration is extending the previous registration in this project, which was solely examining one region. Additional data that were collected and have not yet been analyzed are pre-registered here
Wie definierst du Reichtum?
No full textIn this study, we investigate the influence of different social class backgrounds of German university students on strategies that are used when people are asked to estimate an income that is needed to be rich (or wealth threshold estimations, WTE)
Predicting Democratic Intentions
No full textThis is the second pre-registered study for the project Predicting Democratic Intentions