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SUMMATIVE DECISION POINTS

SPECIAL EDUCATION – TRANSITION TO TEACHING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Updated April 2004

Summative Assessment Point

Assessment Forms/

Criteria

Communication

To Student

Program Data Gathered

Modifications

 

1. Enrollment in first program course

Ÿ      2.5 in first bachelor’s degree.

Ÿ      Completed program application.

Ÿ      Passing PPST scores

 

Written notification of: Admit, conditionally admit, admit on probation, demy admit, accepted but did not enroll.

• Overall GPA & content blocks

• Pipeline data

 

POSSIBLE

• Adjust course offerings to reflect enrollment data

• Adjust course experiences to shore up weaknesses

 

2. After 1 year in program

Ÿ      ≥ 2.7 in each EDUC course

Ÿ      Review of all disposition reports for EDUC courses completed.

Ÿ      Review of content & development standards from  EDUC courses completed.

Written notification after meeting with program faculty: Continue without conditions, continue with conditions, continue under probation, discontinue.

 

Individual advisement.

 

Individual conference.

 

• Overall GPA

•PPST averages

• Accounting of decisions

POSSIBLE

• Adjust course offerings to reflect enrollment data

• Adjust future course offerings to reflect enrollment data

 

 

 

3. Exit 1st field experience

Ÿ      ≥ 2.7 in each EDUC course

Ÿ      Site observation.

Ÿ      No “unacceptable” on dispositions

Ÿ      “Basic” or better on portfolio

 

Written notification after meeting with program faculty: Continue without conditions, continue with conditions, continue under probation, discontinue

 

• Accounting of decisions

• Trends in meeting standards & dispositions

• Pipeline data

POSSIBLE

• Adjust course offerings to reflect enrollment data

• Adjust future course offerings to reflect enrollment data

 

 

4. Final field experience in program

Ÿ      ≥ 2.7 in each EDUC course

Ÿ      Standardized testing per state requirements.

Ÿ      Criminal history check with license application.

Ÿ      No “unacceptable” scores in dispositions

Ÿ      Summative “basic” or better on portfolio and site observations

Exit interview: Complete, not complete.

• Accounting of decisions

• Trends in meeting standards & dispositions

• Pipeline data

POSSIBLE

• Adjust course offerings to reflect enrollment data

• Adjust future course offerings to reflect enrollment data

• Data on “completers”