Transfer from Another Institution

Test Credit

Type of transfer work

·  Test

·  Transfer from another institution

·  Other

Two types of test credit

·  Internal - Placement – coded PLT then the campus code (PLTIN)

o  Articulates to a pseudo course

o  Typically have zero credit

o  Can be used to satisfy a degree requirement or prerequisite

·  External – AP, SAT, etc.

o  Articulates to a real course

Multiple tables

·  Raw Test Score Data – depending on status of student

o  Prospect Test Scores: dss.adm_prsp_tstscr_gt

o  Applicant Test Scores: dss.adm_appl_tst_score_gt

o  Matriculated Student’s Test Scores: dss_rds.sr_tst_scr_gt

·  Articulated course detail

o  Transfer Credit Test Data – detail level: dss_rds.adm_xfrcrdt_tst_dtl_gt

·  Transfer Credit Test Data – master (model) & detail level joined (contains the model information, raw test information and articulation information):

o  dss_rds.adm_xfrcrdt_tst_mdl_gt

o  dss_rds.sr_xfrcrdt_tst_mdl_gt

For the tests such as AP exams to be articulated for credit or articulated for fulfilling a requirement

·  The student must be term activated

·  The model must be POSTED – there is a status for the model and the individual courses. When the model has the status of POSTED this official moves the model out of admissions to student records.

To determine which course(s) the test was articulated to

·  Check the status of the model. It must be POSTED

·  And there must be a course ID in the course ID field.

Just because a course was articulated does NOT mean the student received credit for it. As an example: AP 36 was articulated to ENG-W 131 EX. This means that the student fulfilled the ENG-W 131 requirement, but received no credit for the course. If the student was required to take 9 hours of English including ENG-W 131. The ENG-W 131 requirement was fulfilled, but the student is still required to take 9 hours of additional English courses. Each institution has its own articulation rules. Depending on these rules a test could be articulated different ways.

One test score can articulate to many courses, but many test scores cannot articulate to one course. If a test articulates to many courses the group number will be the same for the articulated courses and the sequence number will be incremented by one for each course. Order the output by xfrcrdt_eqvl_grp_nbr, xfrcrdt_eqvl_seq_nbr.

Example: AP 87 test articulates to HISP 200 and HISP 250,

HISP 200 group number 5 sequence number 1

HISP 250 group number 5 sequence number 2