Work in progress: Enhancing broader communication among courses linked with prerequisites

This paper continues our previous study on addressing the communication barrier among courses linked with prerequisites. By proposing an active feedback system, 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. This active feedback system 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 their 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 weak performance areas to help student to achieve academic success. The actual course adopted for this active feedback system was an entry level engineering math course. In this work, we outline a plan that will allow us to expand this active feedback system into other engineering courses linked by prerequisites.