Why is linking UICs important?
A16: Linking allows students to be appropriately tracked over time. The ability to accurately track students over time is a central requirement for calculating the Senior Cohort Report. Failure to link UICs may have a negative effect on graduation and dropout rates. When a single student is assigned multiple UICs, linking those UICs allows the history of that student to be tied together. For instance, if you search by UIC in the Student Search function of the SRSD application, the UIC Details screen in the application displays not only the record for that UIC but any UIC previously linked to it as well. Linking UICs also reduces the efforts of UIC resolvers during Student UIC Resolution (Phase 1). When the system scans the UIC Master Table for possible matches, it will only check the record of the primary UIC of a set that is linked.
