Syracuse University SURFACE Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation - Dissertations School of Education 8-2012 The Effect of Participation in Syracuse University Project Advance and Advanced Placement on Persistence and Performance at a Four-Year Private University Kalpana Srinivas Syracuse University Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/idde_etd Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Srinivas, Kalpana, "The Effect of Participation in Syracuse University Project Advance and Advanced Placement on Persistence and Performance at a Four-Year Private University" (2012). Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation - Dissertations. 57. https://surface.syr.edu/idde_etd/57 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Education at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation - Dissertations by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 1. Abstract Concurrent enrollment programs (CEPs) are an important source of academic preparation for high school students. Along with Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate, CEPs allow students to challenge themselves in high school and prepare for the rigor of college. Many researchers and practitioners have claimed that, when high school students participate in such programs, they become more successful in college, having better retention rates and better grades. Based upon their knowledge about the many students who have participated in CEPs, Marshal and Andrews (2002) note that “there is scarcity of research on dual credit aka concurrent enrollment programs.” The claims for the effectiveness of CEPs must be substantiated. Syracuse University’s concurrent enrollment program, Project Advance (PA), was implemented in 1972 at the request of six local Syracuse high schools.