ERIC ED345806: The Transfer Indicator pdf

ERIC ED345806: The Transfer Indicator

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Inconsistencies in the definition of transfer from two-year to four-year institutions and in the calculation of the transfer rate have given rise to incongruous findings. For example, one researcher in 1989 reported a transfer rate of less than 12% for the colleges in Illinois at the same time that the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges found a transfer rate exceeding 42% for the California colleges. Taking into account imperatives based upon the enrollment and transfer patterns of the colleges’ heterogeneous student body, a consistent transfer indicator can be achieved by defining potential transfer students as all those entering in a given year who have no prior college experience, who stay at the community college long enough to complete at least 12 college-credit units, and who take one or more classes at the university within 4 years after original college entry. During fall 1989, the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) invited researchers from a broad sample of community colleges nationwide to provide data according to this definition, and 47 institutions from 16 states complied.

The study revealed that just under 50% of the students entering with no prior college experience in the Fall of 1984 had completed 12 or more units within the ensuing 4 years. Of that group, 23% had taken classes at a university. In 1990, CSCC again asked the colleges to provide data on their transfers, and 68 complied; 48% of the students entering in fall 1985 with no prior college experience had earned at least 12 credits, and 24% of them had transferred. (JMC

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1991-02
• Year: 1991
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, College Credits, College Role, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Definitions, Educational Mobility, Higher Education, Prior Learning, Research Methodology, Research Problems, Transfer Policy, Transfer Rates (College), Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges

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