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Use Case 20

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Summary

Many faculty will be interested in longitudinal studies that track either students within a course over time or students over time/across courses.

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.



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This particular version was published on 11-Mar-2008 11:55:44 PDT by uid=momsenj,o=MSU.