Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Annual Reporting Measures

In terms of impact measures, the State of New Hampshire does not provide institutions of higher education with benchmarks for comparison. Our intended case study, to be undertaken in the summer of 2021, has been deferred to summer 2022. The case study will include program completers from the 2020-2021 academic year and will investigate the following:

• The extent to which alumni are satisfied with their program preparation – and feel it has sufficiently prepared them for their respective positions as teachers and specialists
• The extent to which employers are satisfied with their teachers’ preparation
• The extent to which our recent completers are impacting P-12 learning and development through classroom instruction
• The extent to which our recent completers are contributing to an effective level of student learning growth

Granite State College teacher preparation faculty will be engaged in the spring term to participate in the development of data collection tools that will be utilized in the case study process. The study will include candidate self-reporting and data collected from partner schools.

Granite State College has utilized an alumni survey process to collect data from program completers on self-reported teaching effectiveness and adequate preparation. To provide additional data, we are in the process of developing a case study to be undertaken in the summer of 2022. The case study will include program completers from the 2020-2021 academic year and will investigate the following:

• The extent to which alumni are satisfied with their program preparation – and feel it has sufficiently prepared them for their respective positions as teachers and specialists
• The extent to which employers are satisfied with their teachers’ preparation
• The extent to which our recent completers are impacting P-12 learning and development through classroom instruction
• The extent to which our recent completers are contributing to an effective level of student learning growth

Granite State College teacher preparation faculty will be engaged in the spring term to participate in the development of data collection tools that will be utilized in the case study process. The study will include classroom observations and data collected from partner schools.

Granite State College has not monitored employer satisfaction and employment milestones. We are preparing a survey tool for districts to inform the creation of a placement repository for comprehensive employment data on our recent program completers. The survey tool will be completed and delivered in the summer of 2022 to partner schools of graduates from the 2020-2021 academic year.

This placement repository will in turn be utilized during the summer of 2022 to distribute a survey to building principals and administrators. The survey will include questions on the level of satisfaction administrators have of our prepared teachers, any employment milestones of our prepared teachers, and any additional information they wish to share as a means of providing us with feedback on our preparation efficacy.

Granite State College measures satisfaction of completers extensively via a student satisfaction survey, and collected data supports a positive trend across all our teacher certification programs, with an increase in respondent scores from the previous year. The Noel Levitz Priorities Survey for Online Learners (PSOL) was administered in Spring 2019.  The plan was to re-administer the survey each spring for two additional years and then every other year after 2021.  However, with the outbreak of the COVID pandemic in spring 2020, Noel Levitz suggested that 2020 results could be unreliable, so the Director of Student Affairs advised delaying the survey again until spring 2021.

When designing the institution-specific questions for the PSOL, the College elected to include questions specifically linked to the four core institutional outcomes:

• Communication
• Think critically and comprehensively
• Apply knowledge to workplace and community
• Specialized knowledge

Specifically, the questions ask students to gauge how their abilities have improved, and the results are encouraging:

*on a scale of 1 to 7

Engaging a national recognized, benchmarked survey instrument (Noel Levitz) for the student satisfaction survey certainly represents a positive step forward, but reliable trends based on three years of data will not be available until later in 2022. 

Graduation rates are broken into separate calculations based on level:  undergraduate and post-baccalaureate.

POST-BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMS HAVE RUN THE FOLLOWING RATES:

Columns show fiscal year, number enrolling for the first time at post-baccalaureate level in that year/cohort, the number who have graduated, and the percentage graduated based on a three-year graduation rate calculation.

Columns show fiscal year, number enrolling for the first time at post-baccalaureate level in that year/cohort, the number who have graduated, and the percentage graduated based on a six-year graduation rate calculation. 

The five-year average pass rate for completers of GSC programs is 90 percent, which is approximately 5 percent higher than the State of New Hampshire average. Between 2016/17 and 2020/21 Title II reporting years, 205 students took the exam(s), with 184 passing. This data is based on the most recent ETS reporting data available as of March 24, 2022.

All teacher certification programs at all levels are currently fully approved by the New Hampshire Department of Education (NH DOE), based on mapping to NH DOE certification requirements and ability of completers to meet all licensing requirements.

While the College does not currently track employment data, in part because most students are already employed when they enroll at GSC in education-related jobs, we are continuing to monitor data on full-time employment via the Student Satisfaction Survey. The most recent (2019) annual student satisfaction survey indicates that 84 percent of School of Education (SoE) students are employed full-time, presumably in an education position.  Our next survey period will occur during at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year.  Because survey responses are anonymous, survey data is not disaggregated by initial and advanced levels.

The overall default rate for Granite State College for the most recently reported (FY2018) year was 8.6 percent, slightly above the national average of 7.3 percent. Currently the College is unable to easily separate School of Education default rates from the general population.

Analysis of the data does not indicate any unexpected trends, and in many instances indicates upward trends in student satisfaction. There are no concerns that have grown out of our collection and analysis of annual reporting data, and we are continuing to move in a positive direction in seeking continuous improvement to our programs. Our programs are all unconditionally approved by the New Hampshire Department of Education and meet the necessary level of rigor demanded by the State for program approval requirements.