Colleges Play Catch-Up With HEA, p. 15
Title II of the Higher Education Act’s 2008 reauthorization placed new reporting requirements on colleges of education and on the states, and some are having to scramble to catch up with the new requirements. Previously they only had to report passing rates on teacher licensing tests, but Title II now requires them to provide “scaled scores” on these tests, which will allow state-wide comparisons, in effect generating “report cards” for the states and for individual colleges of education. The Educational Testing Service (ETS) is providing this scaled-score information to 35 states and territories.
Some deans at colleges of education have questioned the comparability of the scores. Randy Hitz at Portland State points out that there is variation among institutions in how they define “clinical experience,” for example. But others point out that any information that goes beyond simple pass or fail is bound to be an improvement. Also, scaled scores can help a school identify areas where it is weak.
[Question: how do Oregon colleges of education compare?]
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