Reporting on Transfers with ASSIST Tracy Salter Sr. ASSIST Data Analyst AzTransfer tracy@aztransfer.com April 14, 2017
Reporting on Transfers with ASSIST Objectives What is ASSIST Description Purposes Current Reports and Sample Analyses New Transfers Bacc Degree Recipients who were New Transfer Graduation Rate of New Transfers Audience Participation Possibilities Emerging Trends
ASSIST Arizona State System for Information on Student Transfer
What is ASSIST? A statewide data warehouse with student records from 10 community college districts and 3 universities … ….that allows institutions to track students as they move through Arizona’s higher education pipeline
Participating Institutions Coconino CC Mohave CC NAU Northland Pioneer College Yavapai College 10 Maricopa Community Colleges ASU Central AZ College AZ Western College Eastern AZ College UA Pima CC Cochise College
History of ASSIST 1996 Transfer Articulation Task Force recommended a tracking system to access the effectiveness of a new transfer model Security policies and agreements Funding Operations (staffing and participation)
History of ASSIST 2017 ASSIST can track over 3 million unique students who have taken over 42 million courses
Security Issues How to Protect Student Privacy (FERPA) Personally identifiable data elements replaced with anonymous ASSIST ID How to Prevent Mis-Use of Data ASSIST to be used solely for research and activities consistent with research, with focus on transfer-related issues
Security Issues How to Retain Institutional Control Individual datamarts created for each institution Institutions can only access the records of students who attended their institution Only employees of the institution’s IR office can obtain authorization to access that institution’s data
How is ASSIST Used? To evaluate transfer effectiveness How many students transferred to a university? How many credit hours were transferred? How many students transferred with an AGEC or an Associate Degree? How many transfer students earned a baccalaureate degree? What majors?
How is ASSIST Used? To analyze academic performance and course-taking behavior of transfers How well did students perform in their first semester after transferring? How well did students do in upper level courses after transferring? What is the graduation rate of students who transferred?
Why Use ASSIST? Allows community colleges to track their students through the transfer process Serves as a valuable decision support tool for institutional policy makers who need answers to help them address curricular reform issues
New Transfers from Arizona Community Colleges Report
New Transfers Methodology AZCC New Transfer : students who entered the university in the academic year with 12 or more accepted transfer credits from Arizona public community colleges
Baccalaureate Degree Recipients who Entered as New Transfer from Arizona Community Colleges Report
Baccalaureate Degree Recipients who were AZCC New Transfers Number of AZCC transfer students who received a baccalaureate degree in the academic year from any of the Arizona public universities
Graduation Rate of New Transfers Report
New Transfers’ Graduation Rate
Graduation Rate Analysis Excel PivotTables Dashboard
Key Finding: After 6 years, Transfers who enter full-time and Transfers with an AA-AB-AS have the highest Graduation rate
Audience Participation Were you surprised by any of the data reviewed? Do you have any suggestions for ASSIST reports that provide actionable information? What are emerging trends in transfer that ASSIST can be used to help evaluate the impact to transfer and success?
ASSIST Resources IR Office at your institution ASSIST web site: assist.aztransfer.com Email Tracy Salter and Rebecca McKay at assist@aztransfer.com
Reporting on Transfers with ASSIST Tracy Salter Sr. ASSIST Data Analyst AzTransfer tracy@aztransfer.com April 14, 2017