| Competency-Based Training |
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| Private Vocational Schools |
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Excerpt from Department of Education OAR 581-045-0200:
(7) As an alternative to section (1) of this rule a competency-based training program that is self-paced may be approved by the Superintendent when the school has developed written requirements which it administers for graduation including:
(a) Clearly defined student performance objectives which measure levels of performance at each level of instruction for each skill/task and knowledge required for students to successfully pass the appropriate practitioner certificate examination and successfully and safely perform on members of the public all services allowed in the certificate classifications;
(b) Individual progress records maintained for the purpose of monitoring each student´s progress through the instructional program and recording/ verifying actual hours of instruction and performance achievement by each student;
(c) A curriculum design, which the Superintendent determines to be comparable to the Board adopted model curriculum, showing a logical progression of academic and practical training experiences leading to the levels of student performance required for graduation and certification;
(d) The identification of specific levels of competence to be achieved by each student prior to any clinic lab experience that will ensure students have achieved sufficient skill and knowledge to successfully and safely perform assigned tasks on members of the general public;
(e) A diagnosis of each student´s beginning level of competency and a prescriptive instructional program for specific competency completion with projected timelines resulting in an estimated program completion date; a copy to be given to the student on commencement of the program and on file in the student´s personal file. Revisions to the prescriptive program must be based on recorded performance evaluations and as a result of school/student negotiation. Copies of revisions must be given to the student and on file in the student´s academic file;
(f) Assurances that the instructional program will determine the type of assignments that students receive for the clinic lab; that, as nearly as possible, the clinic lab assignments reflect the emphasis of the student´s current and cumulative theory and laboratory experiences;
(g) School catalogs and/or student enrollment agreements which show the average time for students to complete the requirements for the various certificate programs during the previous reporting period;
(h) An annual report at the time of relicensing to the Department showing the actual total hours of instruction received by each student who has completed or left the school during the previous reporting period;
(i) Assurances that no student´s competency based prescriptive training program will be significantly altered or regulated in any way, once the student and the school administration have signed a competency based agreement; and
(j) When the school informs a student that he/she is competent, the student may elect to leave the school with a diploma at that time or stay in school until he/she has been trained for an amount of time equal to the training hours listed in section (1) of this rule, and no additional tuition may be charged. The student shall notify the school of his/her decision within two weeks of notice of competency.
(8) A school shall not conduct both fixed-hour and student competency-based training programs in the same school facility concurrently unless the school is in transition from one training program to another. The Department may set a time limit in which the transition must be completed.
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