TETC Performance Reports & Metrics

Measuring Progress

The goal of the grant program is to increase the number of graduates. While some increase in graduates can be obtained in the near term by increased retention, in general, it requires four to six years to produce a graduate, so three pre-graduation enrollment measures are defined:

ENTERING - a student with a declared major in the eligible engineering or computer science programs who has a GPA of at least 2.0 or is in good standing during the first semester of enrollment and who has not yet completed both the semester credit and course requirements for "Progressing" students.

PROGRESSING - a student with a declared in the eligible engineering or computer science programs who has a GPA of at least 2.0 and who has completed between 30 and 89 semester credits that count toward his or her degree, including two semesters of calculus and two semesters of a required science course.

ADVANCED - a student who has been admitted to an eligible engineering or computer science degree program and who has accumulated at least 90 semester credits that count toward his or her degree with a GPA of at least 2.0.

GRAD - a student who was awarded a baccalaureate degree from an eligible engineering or computer science program during the previous 12-month period from the beginning of the present semester.

TETC Dataset

Evaluation of the TETC Technology Workforce Development Grants Program

The 2005 Report to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/reports/pdf/0809.pdf