Use Case 20

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Summary

Preconditions

• Data and metadata for multiple years and courses have been uploaded to the database.
• Faculty can query across courses and/or years.
• Faculty can track specific students (in a deidentified state) across courses and/or years.

Basic Course of Events

• Faculty member asks 'how has student performance in my class changed over time?'
• Faculty member queries for final grades of students from the last 5 years.
• Student grades are returned as are relevant metadata and demographic data.

• Faculty member asks 'how do students perform in upper-level biology courses after taking my intro course?'
• Faculty member queries for final grades of students from 3 years ago.
• Faculty member queries for final grades of students in several specified courses.
• The database relates the data from the intro course to upper-level courses, indicating which students are teh same.