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Preliminary Project Overview
Transfer Credit Articulation Database
Kristian D. Lopez, Program and Policy Analyst
Office of Transfer Articulation and Degree Audit
February 12, 2015
Goals and Highlights
Goals
• Support UIC students and colleges by promoting consistency and equity in the determination of official UIC transfer credit articulation decisions.
• Maintain a record of the UIC articulation decision-makers and a history of their official UIC transfer credit articulation decisions.
• Streamline the mining, analysis and distribution of the data needed to facilitate the articulation review process.
• Provide a resource from which reports on university-wide transfer credit articulation activities can be developed.
Highlights
• A relational database for internal use by TADA staff is currently being developed using Access.
• The database supports importing and exporting of data (both manual and semi-automated) to and from various sources (i.e. Toad, Excel, etc.).
• The database streamlines the process of generating articulation review reports for the various colleges at UIC.
• The current articulation process at UIC emphasizes coordinating the articulation review of courses earned at regionally accredited institutions within the United States.
Phase I: Progress to Date
Phase I: Tables
• Phase I currently emphasizes preliminary design of the database structure, objects and articulation review report prototypes.
• Tables house course, articulation, student and institution data from DARS (via Toad), Banner (via Web Intelligence) and the Transfer Evaluation System (TES).
Phase I: Queries
• Queries retrieve and dissect the data that is housed in the tables. This includes:
• Appending new records to the tables and updating existing records.
• Identifying specific records for inclusion or exclusion in a report or analysis.
Phase I: Forms
• Forms facilitate user interaction with the database, such as manual entry of articulation decision and course description data.
Phase I: Articulation Review Report Prototype
• Courses that require articulation review can be exported from the database and saved as an Excel spreadsheet for distribution to a UIC college.
Phase I: Articulation Review Report Prototype
• Colleges can recommend articulation to a specific UIC course equivalency.
• Drop-down menus enable selection of an official UIC articulation from a list of available pseudonyms, including the General Education categories.
Next Steps
Next Steps
• Seek feedback from internal and external partners on the project goals, scope and deliverables.
• Identify remaining action items for Phase I.
• Set scope and action items for upcoming project phases.
• Continue testing and development.
• Wish-list items?