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How to Read a Title II Teacher Preparation Table
Title II of the Higher Education Act is a federal report of teacher-preparation enrollment, completers, and published licensure-exam pass rates. We display the figures as filed. We do not compute a rate from completers and enrollment. When the source suppressed a cell, or when fewer than ten people took the exam, the cell reads “Not reported.”
Reviewed by Brittnie Vargas, School principal, M.Ed.Editorial processKey takeaways
- Title II of the Higher Education Act is a federal report of teacher-preparation enrollment, completers, and published licensure-exam pass rates. We display the figures as filed. We do not compute a rate from completers and enrollment. When the source suppressed a cell, or when fewer than ten people took the exam, the cell reads “Not reported.”
- The source suppressed it, the cohort was smaller than ten test takers, or that cycle’s file did not publish a rate. We leave the cell as “Not reported.”
- Title II is a teacher-preparation accountability report. Administrator credentials are documented on state board pages and, where we have sourced them, on principal credential pages.
A provider in Title II is a preparation route, not always a campus. An institution that offers both a traditional undergraduate program and an alternative route appears as two providers. This site keeps that split. Merging them would invent a blended rate the source did not publish.
Pass rates are licensure-exam outcomes for that provider and route in the reporting year. They are not job-placement rates, not principal-exam rates, and not a quality score. A 100% rate always appears with the number of test takers so a perfect score on a small cohort is not mistaken for a large one.
Suppression is not a failing score. Title II withholds unstable or unpublished figures. We do the same. We will not fill the gap with a zero, a dash styled as a number, or an average of neighboring providers.
State certification pages and Title II pages answer different questions. The cert page tells you how the board issues a classroom license. Title II tells you what that cycle’s preparation providers reported to the U.S. Department of Education. Use both. Do not substitute one for the other.
Frequently asked questions
Why does a program I know have no pass rate?
The source suppressed it, the cohort was smaller than ten test takers, or that cycle’s file did not publish a rate. We leave the cell as “Not reported.”
Does Title II cover principal preparation?
Title II is a teacher-preparation accountability report. Administrator credentials are documented on state board pages and, where we have sourced them, on principal credential pages.