How does the reporting guide ensure an IHEs ability to verify the pass rates attributable to its program completers?
The Department lacks the legal authority to compel states or testing companies to provide IHEs with the scores of individual program completers, data that the IHEs could use to verify the accuracy of pass rate calculations performed by the testing company or state. However, the guide acknowledges that for many IHEs these linked data may be the best way to verify pass rate calculations and directs states to try to develop procedures that can accommodate IHEs’ desire for these linked data, to the extent possible. Where state law or policy does not permit the state agency to develop these procedures, IHEs still will be able to receive from the testing company or state a list of all completers whose scores are included in the pass rate calculations. They also will be able to receive the scores of these completers, albeit scores not linked to a particular test taker.The cost and burden an institution assumes in this verification process will depend, in part, on the number of program complet
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