Impact of KPU's Zero Textbook Cost program

Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) developed and launched Canada’s first Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) programs in January 2018. This project seeks to investigate the impact of this growing initiative on educational outcomes including course enrolment, persistence, and performance through an analysis of KPU’s institutional undergraduate course-level data (which integrates the ZTC course attribute) from January 2018 through to August 2022 (14 semesters). It is hypothesized that ZTC courses will have higher rates of enrolment and persistence and superior mean course performance than non-ZTC courses.