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What is the Departments pass rate dispute resolution process?

April 26, 2017Department Departments dispute pass process rate resolution

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What is the Departments pass rate dispute resolution process?

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If any institution of higher education has not been able to reach agreement with its appropriate state agency (or testing company if the state is accepting calculations of the testing company) regarding the calculation of a pass rate of its teacher preparation program completers, as required by the U.S. Department of Education’s Title II Reference and Reporting Guide, it may request the Department to resolve the dispute. To do so, the institution will need to send to the Department a written request for a change in the pass rate within ten days of receiving the state’s (or testing company’s) resolution of the matter.This request should be accompanied by the following written information: (1) an identification of the particular pass rate(s) that it believes the state and/or testing company has miscalculated; (2) documentation of the grounds for requesting the change(s) and the pass rate(s) that the institution believes to be incorrect; (3) the response of the state agency (and, as appro