College Course Map: Taxonomy and Transcript Data. Based on the PostsecondaryRecords, 1972-1984 of the High School Class of 1972

摘要

The purpose of the project was to arrive at a credible and empirically viabletaxonomy of course categories with which to analyze the college transcripts of 12,600 students in the Postsecondary Education Transcript Sample (PETS) of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. The reference volume is a by-product of those efforts. They indicated that hundreds of colleges, community colleges, and universities were engaging in serious efforts to track the changing curricular experiences of their students. In the process, they were paradoxically using idiosyncratic taxonomies while wondering how their students' experiences compared to those of students at other institutions. The report offers an inductive taxonomy of postsecondary curricula based on the actual course-taking of a generation, a taxonomy that institutions may use and modify in their attempts to understand the nature and effects of the student experience of curriculum.