This聽first in a data note series that draws upon student-level data collected to answer key questions of interest in the CWID community related to reverse transfer and transfer more broadly.听Originally published in 2015, the聽series reported emerging results from the CWID initiative and still informs ongoing development and implementation of reverse transfer policies.
Data for CWID was collected by the Office of Community College Research and Leadership. In Data Note 1,聽researchers asked how different cumulative college credit transfer requirements influence the proportion of students that are聽potentially聽impacted by reverse transfer.听To answer this question and all questions in the subsequent data notes, researchers used the CWID Baseline Study Dataset. The information in the dataset is from a single cohort of students who transferred to a university in one of the 12 CWID states in Fall 2008, and tracks the university persistence and degree completion outcomes for these students through Spring 2012. The dataset聽covers 12 states and includes the records of over 50,000 students. We encourage readers to review the released in October 2013 for a full description of the purpose of the Baseline Study and aggregate results across the 12 states.
The results of Data Note 1 underscore the potential benefit of reverse transfer, as well as revealing some areas for improvement. Read the full report below.
Credit When It鈥檚 Due (CWID) is a multi-foundation funded, multi-state initiative designed to facilitate the implementation of reverse transfer policies and processes that benefit college students who have transferred from the community college to the bachelor鈥檚 level and have not secured an associate鈥檚 degree at the time of transfer.听CCRI is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research this initiative. Learn more about the full聽initiative here.听