Conference Session

Track 1: Technical Session 9: Credit Loss for Engineering Transfer Students: Visualizations Across Students and Structures

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Amy Jo Richardson, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions

for thepolicies to work as intended, community college students must choose a major andtransfer institution early in their college careers to mitigate the potential for credit loss.In their analysis of 34 statewide articulation agreements, Taylor and Jain (2017) found thateven though the agreements facilitate the transfer of credits from the associate of science(AS) and associate of arts (AA) degrees to be able to be used for a bachelor’s degree, thefocus tends to be on general education core courses and not the program major-specificcourses. In engineering programs, the major-specific courses are highly sequential, somissing a course or taking a class that does not meet transfer criteria could set transferstudents back in their progress to a