In the world of Education, it can be difficult to keep track of each individual student that comes through the system. Due to various factors, some students do not remain in districts for long. Even if a student stays s in one district throughout his or her life, he or she will still move from elementary schools to intermediate schools and high schools. Thus, schools and districts create a transcript to follow a student throughout his or her educational career.
A transcript is a document that catalogs vital information about a student. It covers a copious amount of information. On a basic level, the transcript will hold necessary information about a student, such as their address, telephone number, and date of birth. On a more complex level, it will include an exhaustive list of all the courses a student has taken, and what grade they received upon completion. It will include the particular school’s grading scale, so that an outsider could understand the meaning of the grade, and list of total credits accumulated. This is especially important in determining the student’s date of graduation, as they will need to have gained a specific amount of credits to graduate.
Transcripts will also include testing information of various kinds. It will provide test scores the student received from state testing, as well as college entrance exams, such as the ACT or SAT. If a particular state has an exit exam required for graduation, it will also provide that information.
Transcripts can vary slightly from elementary school to high school, but the overall purpose is to record all vital information about a student. When applying to college, admissions representatives will use the transcript to determine whether or not the student is a suitable applicant, and how successful they will be at their school.