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6 Data Collection
Pages 61-65

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From page 61...
... For example, did students earn their credits from community colleges during their senior year of high school, during the summer before they entered four-year engineering programs, or as students in engineering science who left before obtaining A.S. degrees?
From page 62...
... The Department of Education's data are noteworthy examples of useful longitudinal data. EXEMPLARY APPROACHES Among the workshop participants who reported that their institutions do compile data on their students, four-year educational institutions were more likely than community colleges to undertake elaborate data collection and analyses and to gather quantitative as well as qualitative data.
From page 63...
... Students who transfer and students entering as freshmen have virtually the same graduation rate. Tidewater Community College/Old Dominion University/ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Community colleges usually do not collect data on their students, and when they do, it is more limited in scope than student data collected by four-year institutions and qualitative rather than quantitative in nature.
From page 64...
... Systematic data collection programs are needed to determine educational and career outcomes for students who begin and complete their educations in community colleges and for students transferring from community colleges to four-year programs. A recent discussion, convened by the National Governors Association -- an initiative that was created in hopes of influencing the impending reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and other major educational laws -- explored ways to track students through elementary, secondary, and higher education, which would provide better data on dropout rates and other weaknesses in American education (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2005; Cunningham and Milan, 2005)
From page 65...
... DATA COLLECTION 65 laboration between two- and four-year educational institutions, to provide for privacy of students, and to develop vehicles for dissemination. Conclusion 6-2 A meeting of data-collecting agencies (e.g., National Center for Education Statistics, National Science Foundation Division of Science Resources Statistics, American Association of Community Colleges, and American Society for Engineering Education)


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