TREx - College/University Testing

Testing Colleges Should Check the Following Before Certifying a High School as Ready

  • Comparison of paper with (printout of) the corresponding electronic transcript - they should be equivalent.
  • All courses and grades are present, complete with tags (such as Honors or AP).
  • Middle school math and language which count for college credit are present.
  • Diploma track is carried.
  • Graduation is accurately carried - if it has taken place.
  • Rank/size/decile information is present.
  • TAKS information is included.

Differences in the TREx High School Transcript (from SPEEDE College Transcripts)

  • The ISA envelope shows the sender as TEA, rather than the high school.
  • The high school code (from the CEEB/ACT code set, which has Texas high schools in the form 44nnnn), is found in the N1 segment for the sender.
  • Grade qualifiers are generally hard-coded as 517, which doesn't specify any particular grade scale. This will be addressed later as TEA is able - possibly by collecting grade scale info to place on a TEA website. 500 is used as the qualifier for In Progress courses.
  • The high school graduation track is carried in a formatted note high up in the header section, of the form NTE**HS GRAD TYPE=(Recommended, etc…).
  • Actual HS graduation date will be carried in the SST record once graduation occurs.
  • Course tags for Honors, AP, IB, Pre-AP, dual credit, and more are carried in formatted note records iof the form NTE**H=Honors course (for example). The (free) UT Austin Quick & Easy software converts these formatted notes into codes on the course line when it prints, with a code table printed at the end of the transcripts.
  • Another header section note carries a tracking number like D0000001234, very helpful in tracking down problems with TEA or NTC.

Known/Reported Problems/Issues and Their Status

SAT/ACT test scores are not included. Transcripts are never the official source of test scores, but can help students with TSI and other issues.

This is not in the current plan. If highly desired, TACRAO needs to request this of TEA.

Fall grades are still reported as IP=In Progress during the following Spring Term.

Scheduled to be fixed in May 19 release of TREx mapping.

Some middle school course in math and language, counted toward HS credits, have been missing from some transcripts. These are needed by some universities for admission GPA computations and counting for unit requirements

This is a data problem. Colleges need to report this to the high school and make sure it is resolved before certifying the HS as ready.

Printing TREx transcripts with college print routines produces awkward results.

The earlier, DOS-based Quick and Easy software had a separate command for high school transcripts. The newly-released Java-based Q&E release 2.0 can determine the transcript type and print in different formats. Download either from the UT SPEEDE website, registrar.utexas.edu/speede/

TREx uses many formatted free form notes, and printing these can clutter the transcripts.

Your home-grown print routine may need to be modified for this. Q&E release 2.0.0 converts these formatted notes into codes on the course line, and prints a legend at the bottom.

The new Q&E 2.0 generates acknowledgments for just one transcript at a time.

One may still use the DOS-based Q&E to generate a single TS131 acknowledgment for the entire file of received transcripts.

With curriculum codes and other information, some of the TREx course lines are very long, and they wrap around onto multiple lines.

Q&E 2.0.0 has some proportional font features meant to help with this. If that does not work, one may print the transcripts to a file (via that menu option), then open the file with Word, select all, and specify font Lucinda Sans Typewrite and font size = 8. That should get everything on one line.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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