[Tx-speed] Proposed Revision - Texas Academic Drop Counter Implementation Protocol

[David Stones]

TX-SPEED and TACRAO Listservs.   Apologies to those on both.

Last year, the TACRAO Technology Committee was asked to provide a SPEEDE 
Protocol for the drop count information required by SB1231.   Our 
recommendation, as explained in Appendix J of the 61 page pdf posted on 
the TACRAO website (click on FORMS, and look under DOCUMENTATION) 
consisted of a single RAP (Requirements, Attributes and Proficiencies) 
segment in the header section of the electronic transcript file, and 
carrying the drop count.

Now that schools are trying to implement, we have been asked to provide 
methods for conveying information about exemption for the student (based 
on enrollment prior to Fall 2007), as well as for possible lack of 
readiness on the part of the sending institution to report a drop 
count.    Under our revised proposal, schools would send one of the 
following three segments:

RAP!9TX!SB1231!DROPCOUNT=nn!A|   (where nn would be a numeric value for 
the actual drop count)
OR   RAP!9TX!SB1231!EXEMPT=X!A|       (if the student is exempt from SB1231)
OR   RAP!9TX!SB1231!NOTREADY=N!A|    (if the institution is not ready to 
comply with SB1231 and report a count) - we would not really expect this 
to be used.

This proposed  convention has been reviewed by The Technology Committee 
and discussed with Mike Allen and Dennis McMillan.  It is now  forwarded 
to you for your comments.   Unless a better solution is proposed,  we  
will post  this  revised protocol on the  TACRAO website.     We will 
also report on this in the SPEEDE Update session at TACRAO in November.

Thanks.
Dave Stones & Dale Ganus
stonesd at southwestern.edu,   dale.ganue at ttu.edu

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