About 75% of A-G courses showed exact unit alignment between CALPADS and UC admissions data, improving across years¶

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q2 i? Across all A-G categories, about 75% of courses had the same annualized units in CALPADS and UC data, with small improvement from 74.3% (2011-12) to 76.4% (2013-14). → Fong 2018

Evidence¶

Fong 2018¶

Fong, A., Barrat, V., & Finkelstein, N. (2018). Examination of data usability options for assessing eligibility for higher education in California. San Francisco, CA: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED592524

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Comparison of roughly 300,000 A-G courses per year for 60,849 UC applicants matched to CALPADS (98% matching via direct and fuzzy matching). Table 6 prints exact-alignment rates of 74.3%, 75.2%, and 76.4% for 2011-12 through 2013-14.

"Table 6 shows that across all categories, about 75% of the courses taken had the same annualized number of units between the UC admissions dataset and the CALPADS record, with a small improvement across years."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• CALPADS course record availability varied by year, with 62% of 2015 graduates having records for all four school years and 20% missing only 2011-12 — related
• CALPADS-CSU alignment was slightly lower than CALPADS-UC alignment, with about 70% of courses exactly aligned and GPAs within three tenths for close to 90% of students — related
• Grades 10-11 GPA estimates from CALPADS and UC data agreed closely: over 95% of students within three tenths of a point and the at-or-above-3 conclusion matched for 97% — related
• College preparatory elective (G) courses showed markedly lower CALPADS-UC alignment (23-30%) than other A-G areas — related