NSC and ICCB data agree on any-credential completion within four years for 96 percent of immediate two-year enrollees¶

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q2 i? Among 3,660 students enrolled in both datasets, 18.6 percent completed any credential within four years per ICCB and 17.3 percent per NSC, with the datasets agreeing for 96 percent of students. → Jenny Nagaoka and Shelby Mahaffie 2020

Evidence¶

Jenny Nagaoka and Shelby Mahaffie 2020¶

Jenny Nagaoka and Shelby Mahaffie. (2020). Tracking Two-Year College Outcomes: Comparing National Student Clearinghouse and Illinois Community College Board as Sources of Two-Year College Data. Technical Paper, University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/tracking-two-year-college-outcomes

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Student-level completion alignment analysis of the 3,660 immediate two-year enrollees present in both datasets. For 96 percent of students the datasets agreed: 576 earned a completion in both, 2,925 in neither, 103 in NSC only, and 56 in ICCB only.

"the two datasets showed a similar rate of completion of any credential within four years: 18.6 percent of the students completed any credential within four years according to the ICCB data, and 17.3 percent completed any credential within four years according to the NSC data"

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Related Claims¶

• NSC data cannot be used alone to calculate two-year credential-type completion rates because 57.5 percent of completion records have a blank credential name field — related
• Full-time immediate two-year enrollment rates differ substantially between ICCB and NSC data, suggesting limited reliability of the NSC full-time status field — related
• NSC and ICCB data agree on immediate two-year college enrollment for about 96 percent of students, with ICCB showing a slightly higher enrollment rate — related