CAEP Accreditation

The provider demonstrates that program completers effectively contribute to P-12 student learning and growth, and apply professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions in the P-12 classroom that the preparation experiences were designed to achieve.

Completer impact in contributing to P-12 student learning-growth and completer effectiveness in applying professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions

Involvement of Internal and External Stakeholders in program design, evaluation, and continuous improvement processes

Stakeholder Committee meetings are held each academic year. The purpose of the Stakeholder Committee is to provide input on program design and continuous improvement. The Stakeholder Committee members include university supervisors and faculty, school and district administrators, and teachers. Each year members of the Stakeholder Committee are asked to complete a survey evaluating the performance of School of Education teachers.

Employers of graduates of the School of Education are surveyed each spring. A stakeholder meeting is also held each spring including Shawnee State University professors and administrators, employers, teachers, and school administrators. Information and data are shared during these meetings.  This input is vital to the School of Education’s continuous improvement.

Involvement of Internal and External Stakeholders in program design, evaluation, and continuous improvement processes

Shawnee State University offers two graduate level licensure only programs through the Ohio Deans Compact LISD (Low Incidence Sensory Disabilities Programs) Collaborative.

Data below reflects the feedback from employers of completers of the Deaf & Hard of Hearing (TOD) and the Teacher of the Visually Impaired (TVI) programs. Employers are contacted to complete the evaluation one year after the teacher employed in their district has completed the advanced program in either Intervention Specialist Visually Impaired or Intervention Specialist Hearing Impaired.

A measure of candidate competency at completion is the pass rate on the Ohio Assessments for Educators. The Ohio Assessments for Educators (OAE) program assesses the content-area and professional (pedagogical) knowledge of candidates who are seeking initial Ohio educator licensure or adding a new licensure area. The assessments are aligned with Ohio's Learning Standards. The OAE data are shown for the 2023-2024 academic year program graduates.

The following employment data is from the Ohio Department of Higher Education Metric Reporting system (EVAAS) for academic year 2023-2024. Employment shown is any position held by a Shawnee State University graduate in Ohio's public schools in the 2023-2024 academic year.