Navigating Vertical Transfer Online: Access to and Usefulness of Transfer Information on Community College Websites.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To transfer, students often must navigate complex and imperfect information about credit transfer, bureaucratic hurdles, and conflicting degree requirements. This study examined how administrators and transfer personnel think about institutional online transfer resources and examined community colleges' online transfer information.

Methods

For a sample of 20 Texas community colleges, we spoke to key transfer personnel about the information provided to students and reviewed college websites, assessing the ease of access and usefulness of online transfer information. We used a qualitative case study approach to triangulate findings from our data sources.

Results

Approximately two thirds of colleges in the sample fell below the highest standard on our rubric fo

SUBMITTER: Schudde L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11244948 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature