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Nurshatayeva, Aizat (2020) Essays in Higher Education. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)

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This doctoral dissertation consists of three independent studies of higher education. The first study uses a natural experiment at a selective university in Central Asia and a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the causal effect of switching to English-only instruction on students’ college outcomes. The findings suggest that the introduction of English-only instruction led to a decrease of GPAs and probability of graduation and an increase in the number of failed course credits. Although negative, the effects were short-lived. The second study examines whether the chaperone effect, whereby authors who have first published as non-leading authors have better chances to publish later as leading authors, is present in academic publishing in economics, education, political science, psychology, and sociology by analyzing bibliometric data of more than 600,000 articles. The analyses suggest a limited presence of the chaperone effect in social science publications. The third study was a randomized field experiment testing the implementation of the AdmitHub artificially intelligent text-message based virtual assistant to reduce summer melt and improve first-year college enrollment at East Carolina University (ECU) and Lenoir Community College (LCC). At ECU, the positive effects of the virtual assistant were concentrated among first-generation students. For LCC, where the randomized experiment could not be robustly implemented due to having access to cell phone information for only a limited number of students, a qualitative analysis of readiness for chatbot implementation is presented.


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Item Type: University of Pittsburgh ETD
Status: Unpublished
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Nurshatayeva, Aizatain7@pitt.eduain7
ETD Committee:
TitleMemberEmail AddressPitt UsernameORCID
Committee ChairPage, Lindsaylpage@pitt.edu
Committee MemberGiuntella, Oseaosea.giuntella@pitt.edu
Committee MemberKelly, Seanspkelly@pitt.edu
Committee MemberMcClure, Maureenmmcclure@pitt.edu
Committee ChairPearman, Francisapearman@stanford.edu
Date: 17 May 2020
Date Type: Publication
Defense Date: 28 February 2020
Approval Date: 17 May 2020
Submission Date: 16 March 2020
Access Restriction: 2 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 2 years.
Number of Pages: 135
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: School of Education > Administrative and Policy Studies
Degree: PhD - Doctor of Philosophy
Thesis Type: Doctoral Dissertation
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: academic publishing, artificially intelligent chatbots, college access, English-only instruction, scientometrics, summer melt
Date Deposited: 17 May 2020 17:30
Last Modified: 17 May 2022 05:15
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/38338

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