School of Education

The data on completer effectiveness and impact on P-12 learning and development is aligned to CAEP Component R4.1.

Effective Spring 2023, the Employer Satisfaction survey as well as the Completer Satisfaction Surveys will be administered through the University’s Office of Institutional Research for each completer and employer for up to three years following program completion to ensure consistency and triangulate data. This action will afford the EPP clear insights into the satisfaction of employers. Stakeholders participated in stakeholders’ meetings and review of EPP assessments in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 semesters. Stakeholders participated in focus groups to provide meaningful feedback on candidate assessment data and served as a resource to the EPP support continuous improvement initiatives. The results of these processes will be posted in the 2024 CAEP Annual Report.

Measure 2, Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Employer data, are attached at the link below.

The EPP demonstrates that completers can effectively apply professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions through the collection of several key assessments. The EPP determines candidate competency at the completion of the program using the summative student teaching evaluation instrument and a cumulative electronic portfolio. In addition, a team of faculty and mentor teachers conduct exit interviews, which includes measures related to non-academic factors, specifically dispositions, to serve as another measure to triangulate data and assess candidates’ readiness to exit the program.

The EPP defines program completers as candidates who have met all program requirements, which include the state required Praxis II certification assessments. Praxis II reflects completers’ ability to meet state certification requirements and competencies at program completion. As a result, all candidates who are deemed a program completer have met all Praxis II requirements as reflected in the table below.

In addition to the ability of completers to meet state certification requirements, they must also meet EPP-created benchmarks. The measures designed by the EPP to assess candidate readiness for the field include:

• Student teaching evaluation
• Phase III electronic portfolio, with artifacts reflecting short- and long-term plans, impact on P-12 learning and development, and measures specific to the State of Maryland
• Candidate exit interview, which also assess dispositional measures

Candidates enrolled in the Administrative I Certificate program are required to meet capstone requirements, which include assessments on seven key assessments, which include an ePortfolio.

The data to document initial and advanced candidates’ competencies at completion are available at the link below.

The State of Maryland does not track employment of the state’s EPP completers. As a result, the institution monitors employment in the field in which the candidate is prepared through direct outreach to completers. Outreach to program completers reflects that at the initial program level all completers are employed in a position for which they were prepared. The employment data are available at the link below. following employment numbers in the field for which the completers were prepared.