Transcript AACTE Annual Meeting Spring 2008

AACTE Annual Meeting
Spring 2008
Report on NCATE’s
Institutional Support Resources
Boyce C. Williams, PhD
There are various roles and responsibilities
involved in the NCATE accreditation process
• Institutions
– Unit Report Compilers
– Program Review Compilers
• Unit Review Operations
– BOE
– State
– UAB
• Program Review Operations
– SPA Coordinators
– Program Reviewers
2007 STATISTICS ON ACCREDITATION
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72 institutions in the pre-candidate and candidate status
~1200 programs reviewed per year
~140 units accredited per year
2 online institutions attempt to get accredited
Growth in number of NCATE accredited
institutions 1999-2007
660
640
620
600
580
560
540
520
500
480
460
650
623
588
562
537
517
492
1999
2000
2002
2003
2004
2006
2007
Total number of institutions in NCATE system
(accredited, candidates, and pre-candidates)
2000-2007
730
710
690
670
650
630
610
590
570
550
530
690
657
700
712
671
611
585
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2006
2007
accredited
Accreditation Decisions 2004-2007
First-Tim e Accreditation
provisional accreditation
denial of accreditation
percentage of institutions
that applied
100
80
60
40
20
0
fall`04
n=23
spring`05
n=28
fall`05
n=34
spring`06
n=29
fall`06
n=21
spring`07
n=23
fall`07
n=14
accreditatio n co ntinued
Accreditation Decisions 2004-2007
Continued Accreditation
accrediatio n with co nditio ns
accreditatio n with pro batio n
percentage of institutions
that applied
100
80
60
40
20
0
fall`04
n=96
spring`05
n=108
fall`05
n=109
spring`06
n=93
fall`06
n=89
spring`07
n=73
fall`07
n=44
Number of Areas for Improvement Cited by Standard
50
percentage of AFI's cited
45
40
Standard 1
35
Standard 2
Standard 3
30
Standard 4
Standard 5
25
Standard 6
20
15
10
5
0
fall`04 n=391
spring`05 n=471
fall`05 n=426
spring`06 n=284
fall`06 n=291
spring`07 n=215
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
RESOURCES
emails
phone calls
other
support
NCATE
website
Institution
web
seminars
publishing
regional
training
EMAILS AND PHONE CALLS
about 18,000 email responses to institutions’ questions in 2007
Assistance provided over email and telephone concerned:
• Budgeting for the visit, questions about the costs
• Writing of conceptual framework, writing of the preconditions
report
• Writing of the institutional report, trigger report
• Program review – policies, procedures, assessment
• Distinction between initial and advanced programs
• Interpreting unit standards
• Public queries about schools of education; parent queries about
accreditation
• Distinction between unit review and program review
• Streamlining process
• Delays
Other electronic communication coming
from NCATE includes:
• Periodic evaluation invoices to institutions with visits that
semester
• Quality Teaching newsletter-twice a year
• Periodic 'NCATE Update' emails to all deans and
coordinators alerting them to key information
NCATE WEBSITE
Most of NCATE resources for institutions are available on the
website, for example: samples of reports, archived web
seminars, BOE modules, or the handbook. In 2007 all
documents and guidelines on the website were updated.
http://www.ncate.org/
Website
Number of visits in 2007
Web seminar archives
261 (since Oct.’07)
Highlights: Change in Program Review Process Effective Fall 2004
16,500
Highlights from home page: testimonials
1220
Newsletter
1076
Resources for Institutions: first accreditation
2761
Resources for Institutions: continuing accreditation
2641
Resources for Institutions: probation
9
Resources for Institutions: conditional accreditation
616
Program Review Process
1920
NCATE Unit Standards
3267
FAQs about Standards
1062
Institutional Visit
1472
Mini Video Instruction on Submitting in PRS
114
TOTAL for these websites
~ 33,000
website visits
PUBLISHING in 2007
• 1286 NCATE publications were ordered and mailed out to the
institutions (books, CDs, and DVDs).
• Printed 1000 brochures to facilitate ordering of publications
• Printed 3000 Fact Sheets about NCATE for distribution to faculty
and other external audiences
• Professional journal articles on accreditation
• Letters to editor and editorials to newspapers providing correct
information about accreditation and schools of education to the
public
• Produced online Press Packet which provides sample news release
and strategies for media coverage when institutions are accredited
– help institutions advertise their accreditation.
• NCATE Newsletter
• Produced Reading DVD
PUBLISHING in 2007 cont.
In 2007 NCATE worked on 3 major publications:
• “Preparing Effective Teachers of Reading: Putting
Research Findings to Work for Student Learning”
Edited by Boyce Williams;
• “It’s All About Student Learning: Assessing Teacher
Candidates’ Ability to Impact P-12 Students” Arthur E.
Wise, Pamela M. Ehrenberg, Jane Leibbrand, Editors;
• “Professional Standards, for the Accreditation of
Teacher Preparation Institutions 2008 edition”
REGIONAL TRAINING
• Meeting with the Deans – OK, IL, AK, Puerto Rico
• State BOE training – institutions often attend –
OH, MA, SD, IN, NM, ND
• Consultation with teacher education staff and faculty –
MD, TX, OH, MI
• State institutional training –
CT, SC, MI, DC, AK, CA, PR
• Orientation – SC, GA, NC
• Attended Annual Conventions of all SPAs
• Presentations during conferences - AACTE, ATE, HBCU Family Reunion,
NBPTS Partnership Conference, NMSA, NASP, NASBE, NABSE
• Institutional Orientation – twice per year
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Access to NCATE Staff
Resource room – about 300 visitors per year
Examples of program reports
Experts in assessment, standards
WEB SEMINARS
In August of 2006, NCATE launched online web seminar
series - an interactive online training and communications
initiative that provides support and outreach to the various
audiences involved in the accreditation process through the
use of our own virtual classroom.
In 2007, NCATE Staff offered over 70 web seminar sessions.
WEB SEMINARS in 2007
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streamlining process
designing and finalizing visits
PRS
program review
new standards
web seminars for
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faculty of Arts and Sciences
pre-candidates and candidates
the pilot institutions
institutions with upcoming visits
institutions with focused visits
BOE chairs
OTHER WAYS OF SUPPORTING
INSTITUTIONS
• financial review committee - financial review for the “noninstitution universities”
• in early September and early January, send out periodic
evaluation invoices to institutions with visits that semester
• developing new systems and databases – e.g. PRS,
database for submitting evaluations
• assisting colleges and universities in modifying master’s
degree programs so that they are built upon NBPTS
standards
• convocation speeches
OTHER ACTIVITIES AT NCATE in 2007
• In 2007 international visitors from the following countries
came to learn about NCATE and our accreditation system:
Turkmenistan, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Afghanistan,
Jamaica, Pakistan, Burma (Myanmar)
• Staff also consulted with and visited Zayed University –
Dubai/Abu Dhabi
• Research and grants
– MetLife Foundation Research Project - NCATE has initiated an
Urban Teacher Residency Project to study teacher residency
programs, which are targeted at preparing and retaining qualified
teachers in high needs schools.
– Foundation for Child Development - Child and Adolescent
Development Research and Teacher Education – joint report with
NIH and NICHD has been published – NCATE received a grant to
further investigate the topic of child development and teacher
education.
Our work is done with the focus on NCATE’s mission:
IMPROVEMENT of teacher performance through quality
teacher preparation
ACCOUNTABILITY to children, their parents, and the publicat large for quality teacher preparation
Thank you for working with NCATE to meet the challenge of
providing high quality teacher education to our children.