Should postsecondary institutions use the data collected in the re-survey process to update race/ethnicity for the GRS cohorts who entered prior to the transition to the new standards?
No. The Association for Institutional Research suggests that institutions map old categories to new ones for the cohorts that matriculated before the transition but do not over-write those data with re-surveyed data because not all students will have had an opportunity to be re-surveyed (e.g., students who dropped out or graduated before the re-survey).
Related Questions
- Should postsecondary institutions use the data collected in the re-survey process to update race/ethnicity for the GRS cohorts who entered prior to the transition to the new standards?
- Can postsecondary institutions provide an explanation for why ethnicity/race information is being collected?
- How will postsecondary institutions report data under the new ethnicity/race categories?
