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Christopher Norio Avery studies rating and selection mechanisms, focusing on the college admissions system. His first book, The Early Admissions Game, coauthored with Andrew Fairbanks and Richard Zeckhauser, was published by Harvard University Press in March 2003. In his current research, he studies college application patterns and college enrollment choices for high school students. He completed a Ph.D. in economic analysis at the Stanford Business School and holds prior degrees from Harvard and Cambridge universities.
At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, enrollment in the nine colleges in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) fell by 30% from Fall 2019 to Fall 2020, jeopardizing the progress of reform efforts that had helped to produce an increase in completion rates from 16% to 26% over the previous decade. In response, LACCD invested heavily in improving the quality of its remote and hybrid course offerings. LAACD plans to build on these investments in a longer-term shift in its course offerings designed to increase scheduling options, promote engagement of students and improve student outcomes. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of online and hybrid course modalities on psychosocial and academic outcomes for LACCD students and to develop supports for modalities that improve academic outcomes.