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The College of Education offers four Advanced programs for other professional school personnel: Educational Leadership, Special Education Administration, School Library
Media, and School Counseling. Of these, both School Library Media and School Counseling lead to the master's degree and endorsement. Special Education Administration leads to the master's degree and can lead to state approval after employment. Educational Leadership leads only to the master's degree at this time. (When Michigan suspended the requirement for administrator certification, our program continued to meet the former requirements. Michigan is now re-instituting the requirement, and we are in the process of submitting program revisions.)
Academic Record
Candidates applying to Advanced programs preparing other professional school personnel must present a minimum 3.0 grade point average from the last 60 credits of the baccalaureate degree. Candidates who do not meet requirements may be considered for alternate admission if they meet one of the following sets of criteria: possession of a prior master's degree; satisfactory performance (3.0) in the first six credits of introductory courses; or a Graduate Record Examination analytical writing score of 3.5 and a total score of 760 (360 v, 400 q). Approximately 86% of applicants were admitted using the basic grade point requirement. The remainder met alternate admission criteria:
See table below:
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| Advanced-Other School Personnel: Grade Point Averages at Admission |
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| Minimum Requirement: 3.0 during the last two years of the undergraduate degree. For complete data, refer to Grade Point Averages (Advanced-Other School Personnel). |
Content Requirements
The four Advanced programs for other professional school personnel have the same requirements as programs for teacher candidates although some are more credit-intensive and have additional stipulations. Two examples are the requirement of school administrator sponsorship for Educational Leadership and Special Education Administration candidates and the 600-hour practicum requirement for School Counseling.
| Advanced-Other School Personnel: Credit Hour Requirements in Content Areas |
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| For complete listing, refer to Credit Hour Requirements (Advanced-Other School Personnel). |
Assessments for Content Knowledge
As with programs preparing teacher candidates, assessments for other professional school personnel are aligned with professional, state and institutional standards. The only difference is that programs preparing other school personnel align primarily with their individual SPA standards, not with NBPTS teaching standards. Accordingly, references in this report to assessment systems for other school personnel are sometimes program-specific rather than unit-wide. Advanced candidates in programs preparing other professional school personnel demonstrate content knowledge in these designated course assessments:
| Advanced Programs for Other School Personnel: Course Assessments for Content Knowledge |
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| To link to syllabi and assessments of record, refer to individual courses above or Assessment System (Advanced-Other School Personnel). Candidate work samples may also be reviewed in the on-site exhibit room. |
Near the end of master's degree work, candidates in Advanced programs preparing other professional school personnel also undertake a research project or thesis and meet the same research standards identified earlier in programs preparing teachers. Well over 90% of candidates and their supervisors rated their performance Proficient or Distinguished:
| Advanced-Other School Personnel: Research Assessments (Content Knowledge) |
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| For complete data on sub-areas and specific programs, refer to Research Assessment Data (Standard 2-Literature Review). |
| Advanced-Other School Personnel: Clinical Assessment and Follow-Up Studies (Content Knowledge) |
| For individual examples in process or already conducted, examples are available in the on-site exhibit room. |
Licensure Examinations
This data table shows that the pass rate for candidates in programs preparing other school personnel was 100%, which was higher than state pass rates (96%) and higher than overall unit pass rates (92%):
| Michigan Subject Area Test, Fall 2001-Spring/Summer 2004 (Content Knowledge) |
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| For complete data and programs, refer to Michigan Tests (Subject Area Tests or Title II). |
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