State Support for Interinstitutional Transfer and Articulation: The Impact of Databases and Information Systems.
State Support for Interinstitutional Transfer and Articulation: The Impact of Databases and Information Systems.
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国家对机构间转移和衔接的支持:数据库和信息系统的影响。
DOI:
10.1080/106689201750122415
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发表时间:
2001
影响因子:
1
通讯作者:
Chad Kjorlien
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作者:
John Welsh;Chad Kjorlien
Research since the mid-1960s has demonstrated the relative paucity of state support for the transfer function of postsecondary institutions, particularly community colleges, while emphasizing the importance of support for student access to the full range of higher education opportunities. Ewell and Jones (1991) and Russell (1999) however, have documented that the state policy and planning environment for student transfer changed in the 1990s. At least 43 states, plus Puerto Rico, have ongoing student information systems that include data elements pertaining to transfer students and, thus, have the capacity to affect the transfer environment through data-based analysis of transfer student educational outcomes. This article presents the results of a national study of the purpose, structure, and impact of databases and information systems maintained on transfer students by state higher education agencies. The study concluded that, although most states have an increasing ability to collect, manipulate, and us...