Work in progress — Enhancing communications among courses linked with prerequisites

This paper addresses the communication barrier exists among courses linked with prerequisite by proposing an active feedback system so that the instructor teaching the prerequisite can proactively report the student performance at each detail subject level and make it available to instructors requiring the course as prerequisite. It serves three purposes: (1) the instructors receiving such information have a better understanding of the incoming student readiness for the class, and if necessary, can offer a review session before starting a new chapter; (2) the prerequisite instructor can assess and improve his or her teaching effectiveness at each subject level by re-assigning the appropriate amount of time in each chapter; (3) the academic advisor can also use this information to recommend additional study between semesters in certain subject areas to help student to achieve academic success, if they demonstrate some weakness in those areas.