TESU Has CLEP/ DSST Equivalency Charts Posted Again

[KayV]

I was surprised and pleased to see the test equivalencies back on the TESU website.
DSST (formerly DANTES)
CLEP - College-Level Exam Program

[jsd]

On the CLEP page, some of the exams have this note

* CLEP subject examination update. Thomas Edison State University has conducted an academic program review on this exam. Credit awarded for this exam will be considered TESU assessment credit, not TESU-CLEP credit, and will show on the official transcript under TESU assessment credit.

Does this mean they show up on the official transcript as TESU courses? That doesn't seem right, but I don't know what they mean

[KayV]

Those are the exams for which ACE had lowered their credit recommendations (from 6 down to 3 hours on the literature exams, for example). I guess TESU decided they would still meet the TESU requirements for 6 hours of credit, which is certainly their prerogative.

[jsd]

Gotcha, that makes sense. Good news for folks who hadn't taken those before the downgrade but still want to.

[dfrecore]

I think they also made a couple of changes (at least I wasn't aware of them before):

Calculus CLEP is now 4cr

College Algebra DSST now comes in as MAT-115 Intermediate Algebra rather than MAT-121 College Algebra!! This is a big deal for Business students!

They also clarified that Personal Finance, Foundations of Education, and Health & Human Development DSST's are Free Electives. At least we know up front and in writing.

[jsd]

College Algebra DSST now comes in as MAT-115 Intermediate Algebra rather than MAT-121 College Algebra!! This is a big deal for Business students!

Good catch. At least the college algebra CLEP is still an option for for MAT-121.

[sanantone]

How come Fundamentals of Counseling is under humanities rather than social science? How come some of the history tests count as humanities and social sciences and one counts as only humanities? Also, how come Money and Banking is not cross-listed as a social science? It's coded as economics. I wonder how many of these things are mistakes.

[dfrecore]

How come Fundamentals of Counseling is under humanities rather than social science? How come some of the history tests count as humanities and social sciences and one counts as only humanities? Also, how come Money and Banking is not cross-listed as a social science? It's coded as economics. I wonder how many of these things are mistakes.

They also don't show that some courses satisfy specific requirements:

A&I Lit CLEP, Tech Writing DSST & World Religions DSST all satisfy the INFO LIT requirement
Business Ethics satisfies ETHICS requirement
All of the math courses satisfy QUANTITATIVE LIT requirement

If Money & Banking is now an ECO course (I think it used to be a FIN course), that would certainly be helpful for people to know as it could be used as an UL course in several degree programs. Even for the BSBA, they have it as a duplicate course for Financial Institutions & Markets TECEP (FIN-331). So I think someone may have messed that one up, in addition to the ones you mentioned.

Looks like they weren't very thorough, as usual.

[Mamawenzie]

For what it's worth, the Technical writing DSST will only meet the info literacy requirement if taken and transferred into TESU by 12/31/16. I was told this by my academic adviser at TESU. I'm not sure if the test will be retired or if TESU is making more changes, but there you have it. And, I took A&I, American Lit, and English Lit all after the downgrade, but TESU is giving me 6 credits for each of them on my recent transcript. I was not expecting that! Happy Dance!

[sanantone]

They also don't show that some courses satisfy specific requirements:

A&I Lit CLEP, Tech Writing DSST & World Religions DSST all satisfy the INFO LIT requirement
Business Ethics satisfies ETHICS requirement
All of the math courses satisfy QUANTITATIVE LIT requirement

If Money & Banking is now an ECO course (I think it used to be a FIN course), that would certainly be helpful for people to know as it could be used as an UL course in several degree programs. Even for the BSBA, they have it as a duplicate course for Financial Institutions & Markets TECEP (FIN-331). So I think someone may have messed that one up, in addition to the ones you mentioned.

Looks like they weren't very thorough, as usual.

It was always ECO, but it also counted as finance for the business degrees similar to how MIS counts as management even though it has a CIS prefix. It also always duplicated the TECEP despite different codes similar to how the law enforcement and CJ DSSTs duplicated despite different codes.