Considerations for Using the School Courses for the Exchange of Data (SCED) Classification System in High School Transcript Studies: Applications for Converting Course Codes from the Classification of Secondary School Courses (CSSC)

Title:	Considerations for Using the School Courses for the Exchange of Data (SCED) Classification System in High School Transcript Studies: Applications for Converting Course Codes from the Classification of Secondary School Courses (CSSC)
Description:	The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) began collecting high school transcripts with the High School and Beyond (HS&B) longitudinal study of students who were in the 10th grade in 1980. NCES has continued to collect transcripts for a secondary-level cohort in each subsequent decade. This report describes the two high school course coding systems used by NCES and the development of a crosswalk that allows data coded with the first system to be translated into the second system. It then provides tables with estimates generated using the two different systems.
Online Availability:	Download, view and print the report as a pdf file. (2.57MB) Download, view and print the Crosswalk appendix as a pdf file. (1.16MB) Download, view and print the Crosswalk appendix as an XLSX file. (125KB)
Cover Date:	September 2019
Web Release:	September 20, 2019
Publication #:	NCES 2019417
Center/Program:	NCES
Authors:	Robin R. Henke, Colleen Spagnardi, Xianglei Chen, Denise Bradby
Type of Product:	Technical/Methodological Report
Survey/Program Areas:	Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS) High School and Beyond (HS&B) High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88)
Keywords:	Coursetaking/Transcripts • classification High School
Questions:	For questions about the content of this Technical/Methodological Report, please contact: Elise Christopher.