NCATE Update

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NCATE Update

• AACTE Annual Meeting
• January 29, 2006

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700 Institutions in the NCATE System

• 617 accredited institutions
• 40 candidates
• 43 precandidates

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How did institutions fare in 2005 accreditation
decisions?

• Initial Teacher Preparation
• Seeking 1st Accred 35
• Accredited 66
• Provisional Accreditation 29
• Denied Accreditation 6
• Seeking Continuing Accred 94
• Accreditation Continued 69
• Conditional Accreditation 24
• Probation 5
• Revocation 1

• Advanced Preparation
• Seeking 1st Accred 27
• Accredited 59
• Provisional Accreditation 30
• Denied Accreditation 11
• Seeking Continuing Accred 74
• Accreditation Continued 65
• Conditional Accreditation 28
• Probation 1
• Revocation 5

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Topics to be addressed

• State of NCATE Arthur Wise
• Status of program review system Margie
  Crutchfield
  
• Standards Revision Antoinette Mitchell
• Other Accreditation Issues Donna Gollnick

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Other Accreditation Issues

• Standards not being met
• Visiting online institutions
• Definition of distance learning programs
• How much data are needed?
• Seven year cycles
• New resources

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Standards not met in 2005
Total Condition/Provision of
Total Std 1 11 5
45 Std 2 39
32 82 Std 3 3
0 0
Std 4 7 4
57 Std 5 4 3
75 Std 6 3
1 33
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Visiting online institutions

• Visiting first institution in spring 2006
• Growing number of online institutions and for
  profit institutions using the NCATE standards to
  develop programs for educators

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Distance learning

• Distance learning. A formal educational process
  in which the major portion of the instruction
  occurs when the learner and the instructor are
  not in the same place at the same time through
  virtually any media including printed materials,
  videotapes, audio recordings, facsimiles,
  telephone communications, Internet communications
  through email, and web-based delivery systems

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Distance Learning Program

• A program in which over half of the required
  courses in the program occur when the learner and
  the instructor are not in the same place at the
  same time. See definition on distance learning.
  These programs include those offered by the
  professional educational unit through a contract
  with an outside vendor or in a consortium
  arrangement with other higher education
  institutions, local education agencies, or other
  entities.

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Questions BOE teams should ask

• Standard 1 What assessments are used to monitor
  candidate performance and determine that
  proficiencies in standards are being met by
  candidates in distance learning programs? What do
  the data suggest about the performance of
  candidates in distance learning programs as
  compared to candidates in traditional programs?
• Standard 2 What evaluations of the distance
  learning programs provide systematic and ongoing
  date for use in program improvement? What changes
  have occurred as a result of these evaluations?

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How much data are needed for program review?
Program Reports Submitted Thru Feb 1, 2007 S
ept 15, 2007 Feb 1, 2008 Sept 15, 2008 Fe
b 1, 2009
Sept 15, 2009 afterwards
Amount of Data Required 1 semester 1 year

1 year 2 years 2 years 3 years
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How much data are needed for program review?
On-site Visit Date Thru Spring 2008 Fall 2
008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Spring 2010
Fall 2010 afterwards
Amount of Data Required 1 year 2 years 2
years
3 years 3 years 3 years
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Disaggregating Data

• Beginning in fall 2007, professional education
  units will be asked to disaggregate candidate
  assessment data by campus programs, off-campus
  programs, and distance learning programs for the
  national review process and unit accreditation to
  help determine similarities and differences in
  the quality of candidates that complete these
  programs.

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States retaining the 5-year cycle 6

• Alabama
• Iowa
• Massachusetts
• Mississippi
• Puerto Rico
• Rhode Island

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Resources

• New Publication on Standards 1 2
• DVDs on Standards 1, 2, 3, 4 to be available
  soon
  
• Online modules (now BOE Training Modules) being
  updated and expanded to include new modules on
  
• Program Review
• Assessments

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New Resource

• Spotlight on Schools of Education How 58
  Institutions Responded to NCATE Standards 1 and
  2
  
• by Antoinette S. Mitchell, Sheila Allen, and
  Pamela Ehrenberg, NCATE

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Institutional Folders
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Next Institutional Orientation

• April 27 30, 2006