Certification rate.  State, Recruitment and Partnership Grantees: The percentages of new and current teachers, who meet their state’s teacher certification requirements, including passing content knowledge and competency tests, will increase each year.
 

Targets and Performance Data

Year 2001
Actual Performance - Baseline and Year 2 Data—The percentages shown in ‘Status’ show the progress from the Baseline Year to Year 2 scores
Performance Targets - The target is ‘percentages will increase each year’.  Year 1 (2000) will serve as baseline data for comparison in future years
 
 

Assessment of Progress

According to the 1999-2000 UTC Title II Institution Report, there were 193 program completers.  Of those, the following pass rates for the teacher competency tests were:

Institutional Aggregate and Summary
 
Pass-Rates  2000/2001
Professional Knowledge:  97%/100%
Academic Content:  87%/96%
Other Content Area:  100%/100%
Special Teaching Populations  94%/100%
Summary Totals & Pass-Rates  95%/97%

Institutional Single Assessment Pass-Rates
Professional Knowledge
 
2000/2001
Biology Pedagogy 86%/100%
Ed. In the Ele. Exer. 100%/100%
Elem Ed. School 100%/100%
Elem. Ed. Curr./Instruction 97%/100%
Language Comp. Pedagogy 94%/100%
Math Pedagogy 86%/100%
Physical Science Pedagogy 100%/100%
Principals of Learning 5-9 100%/100%
Principles of Learning 7-12            95%/100%
Principles of Learning K-6 98%/100%
Professional Knowledge 100%/100%

Academic Content
 
2000/2001
Art Education 100%/       
Art Making 100%/100%
Art Knowledge 100%/100%
Art Traditions, Criticism 100%/100%
Biology Essays 100%/67%
Biology Knowledge 100%/100%
Chemistry Essays 100%/        
Chemistry Knowledge 100%/        
Early Childhood Ed. 91%/100%
Earth Science Knowledge 50%/100%
Ecomonics 100%/100%
French Knowledge       /100%
French Skills      /100%
General Science Essays 100%/        
General Science Knowledge Pt. 1 100%/100%
General Science Knowledge Pt. 2 100%/100%
Geography 100%/      
Language Literature Kowledge 88%/100%
Language Literature Essay 94%/100%
Math Knowledge 86%/100%
Middle School Knowledge      /100%
Music Concepts 100%/100%
Music Knowledge 100%/100%
P. E. Knowledge 78%/83%
P. E. Move Forms A & D 80%/100%
Spanish Knowledge 100%/100%
Spanish Language Skills 67%/100%
World and US History 47%/84%

Other Content Areas
 
2000/2001
Health Education                        100%/100%

Special Teaching Population
 
 
2000/2001
English as Second Language 100%/     
Special Education 100%/     
Special Education Application of Core Principles 92%/100%
Specal Education Based on Core Principles 92%/100%

 

Explanation: These scores are represented to show the scores from 2000 on the left of the slash and from 2001 on the right of the slash.  The evaluators will continue to plot the progress of these scores throughout this program.  Some scores were reported only during this year, and will be used as baseline data.    Increases in scores from 2000 to 2001 indicate a change in the requirements for graduation from the Teacher Education Program.  The year 2001 graduates were required to take and pass the Praxis II tests in order to graduate.

Sources and Data Quality
Sources: UTC Title II Institution Report, Academic Year:  1999-2000
Validation Procedures:   Confirmed with Tennessee State Department of Education
Limitations of Data and Planned Improvements:  Scores from some areas were not reported in both years.