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Transfer models are the arrangements and mechanisms enabling students to move through education systems. This movement can be a progression upwards, in reverse or at level and generally involves a shift from one course to another, one education and training sector to another, or one place to another. Course articulation and credit transfer are important components to the transferral process.
Research
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Recent publications
- 2017 transfer report: a review of improvements in transfer [US]
- Articulation and transfer in Tennessee higher education [US]
- Credit transfer in higher education: a review of the literature [UK]
- Exploring credit mobility and major-specific pathways: a policy analysis and student perspective on community college to university transfer [US]
- Higher education: students need more information to help reduce challenges in transferring college credits [US]
- Improving the odds: an empirical look at the factors that influence upward transfer [US]
- Is it really cheaper to start at a community college?: the consequences of inefficient transfer for community college students seeking bachelor's degrees [US]
- National qualifications frameworks (NQF) and support for alternative transition routes for young people [international]
- Policy levers to strengthen community college transfer student success in Texas [US]
- Takes two to tango: essential practices of highly effective transfer partnerships [US]
- The boundaries and connections between the VET and higher education sectors: 'confused, contested and collaborative' [Australia]
- The multiple dimensions of transfer: examining the transfer function in American higher education
- The potential of degree reclamation: a path to reclaiming the nation's unrecognized students and degrees [US]
- The re-recruitment of students who have withdrawn from Australian higher education
- Using data mining to explore why community college transfer students earn bachelor's degrees with excess credits [US]
Suggested reading
Key research from a broad date range
- Crazy paving or stepping stones?: learning pathways within and between vocational education and training and higher education [Australia]
- Facilitating college to university transfer in the European Higher Education Area and beyond: opportunities for Ontario's Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology
- Reverse transfer in Australia
- Some problems of introducing European credit transfer system (ECTS) into non-state higher institutions [Russia]
- Stepping stone and option value in a model of postsecondary education [US]
- The transfer playbook: essential practices for two- and four-year colleges [US]
- Transfer: an indispensable part of the community college mission [US]
- Transferability of postsecondary credit following student transfer or coenrollment [US]
Resources
- Asia Exchange – credit conversion
- Australasian Curriculum, Assessment and Certificate Authorities (ACACA)
- Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials (CICIC) - credit transfer and articulation in Canada
- Pathways to College Online Library [US]
- VOCEDplus Pathways Pod (NCVER)
- US Department of Education - transferring from Community Colleges to Baccalaureate Institutions
- UK’s Credit Transfer Systems
