College preparatory elective (G) courses showed markedly lower CALPADS-UC alignment (23-30%) than other A-G areas¶
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q2 i? Only 23% of students had the same number of annualized G-course units in CALPADS and UC data in 2011-12, rising to 30% by 2013-14, far below other subject areas. → 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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Subject-area alignment analysis for UC applicants (Table 3, 2011-12). The report prints "Only 23% of the students had the same number of annualized units in CALPADS and the UC dataset" for G courses, with 41% in UC data only and 24% in CALPADS only.
"Only 23% of the students had the same number of annualized units in CALPADS and the UC dataset. A high percentage of records corresponding to college preparatory elective (G) courses in the UC admissions dataset were not found in CALPADS (41%) for the same students; likewise, a high percentage of these records in CALPADS were not found in the UC dataset (24%)."
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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
- About 75% of A-G courses showed exact unit alignment between CALPADS and UC admissions data, improving across years — related
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College preparatory elective (G) courses showed markedly lower CALPADS-UC alignment (23-30%) than other A-G areas |
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College preparatory elective (G) courses showed markedly lower CALPADS-UC alignment (23-30%) than other A-G areas |
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2018 |
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