August 8, 2014

2014 Student Transcript and

Academic Record Repository (STARR) Collection Review

Issues Found During 2014 STARR Collection

Session Designator

UIC Resolution

Proposed 2015 STARR Changes

College Transfer Report

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• Business Rule Validations• Residency Status Code• Cumulative GPA greater than 0.00, Term GPA

must be greater than 0.00• Cumulative GPA 0.00, Course Academic Grade

Scale Code must equal 55-64• Entry Date• Entry Date greater than Session Designator• Entry Date changed from a previous year’s STARR

submission• CTE Concentrator• High School Student• Postsecondary Enrollment Type

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• Student being reported for a given academic session multiple times

• Students reported with 2 Cumulative GPAs for a non-unique session

• CEPI will not be able to resolve this on a case by case basis

• How to address the situation for future

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• Amount of UICs Requiring Resolution in STARR

• Add a file level duplicate UIC validation

• Having to resolve UICs in both the IHE Request for UIC and STARR Collections

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• Data Elements• Remedial Course• Economically Disadvantaged• Course CIP Code• Veteran Flag

• STARR Collection• Back button efficiency• Show previous last name on UIC Resolution Screen• Quality review functionality • Online entry to make changes to STARR data

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• College Transfer report released last year• Fulfill legislation of 4-year informing 2-year of the academic

status of students

• Looking back• Did not capture mid-year transfers• Did not reflect the student’s entire postsecondary

enrollment history (only looked back 1 year)• Did not distinguish between undergraduate/graduate• Only counted transfer students that transferred out of a 2-

year into a 4-year• Student could only count as a transfer once

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• Defining a Transfer Student• Include students who have enrollment in the same

school year as the report year• Include Fall and Winter/Spring• Student must retain their student level between

schools • Reported as a TransferIn through the STARR

Collection • If the student • Adding new dimensions • Include transfer to multiple schools