Data Management Issue
Graduating GPA
Status - Submitted January 29, 2008
Information From Jesse Zurschmeide provided January 30, 2008
Desc of Issue: Graduating GPA
Description of this data issue: The grade point average associated with a degree conferred to a student is being added to DataNet, and a description of this will be added to the data dictionary.
The DataNet dictionary definition says that this element is extracted from the GGPAGPAVAL field in the GGPA data source in SIS and reflects the student’s cumulative GPA at the time the degree was conferred. All true as described.
However, there are some questions about the data values that need clarification.
How does this work for folks graduating with multiple degrees. It looks from the data like the same GPA is listed for both degrees, which would make sense, but it should be clear in the documentation.
Also, since the same GPA will list next to minors (if included in the report), we might want to make more explicit that this is the overall graduating GPA, and not, say, the GPA for courses taken within a minor (or a major).
IAP needs some guidance from SIS that provides and accurate description of this data field.
Area: Student
Owning Data Steward: Jesse Zurschmeide
Submitting Data Steward: Lynne Personius
Has a community of interest been identified? Not at time of submission
Community of Interest Members:
Attachment: Proposed DataNet Data Dictionary Entry for Graduating GPA MS Word format
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