The Maine Question: How Is 4-Year College Enrollment Affected by Mandatory College Entrance Exams?
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Published online on March 05, 2014
Abstract
We use a difference-in-differences analytic approach to estimate postsecondary consequences from Maine’s mandate that all public school juniors take the SAT®. We find that, overall, the policy increased 4-year college-going rates by 2- to 3-percentage points and that 4-year college-going rates among induced students increased by 10-percentage points.