(1) The Board shall approve, disapprove, or
request additional data on any application for a school approval within sixty
(60) days of the submission of a completed application containing the data
required by this Rule. The application, in addition to the name and address of
the school or person offering appraisal course(s) as well as any other
identifying criteria which the Board may require, must set forth in terms
acceptable to the Board the following:
(a) a
detailed proposal of records management for retaining for at least five years
records which will reflect the scores earned by a student on all graded exercises
and examinations;
(b) if subject to
the Nonpublic Postsecondary Educational Institutions Act of 1990, O.C.G.A.
Section
20-3-250.1et
seq., a current certificate issued by the Nonpublic Postsecondary
Education Commission;
(c) all
directors and owners of the school including their names and addresses. If the
owner or owners are a partnership or corporation then a list of all directors and
owners of the parent entity;
(d) if
the school wishes to adopt a makeup policy regarding attendance, a detailed
statement of that policy;
(e) a
statement of entrance qualifications for students;
(f) a statement that it can make available to
its students materials which the Board may require for use in a particular course
or courses and that it has video or audio equipment available to present Board
required material;
(g) a statement
that it will conduct approved courses in classroom style facilities.
(h) a statement that the school will comply
with all related provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and that
the school will not discriminate in its fees, enrollment, or completion policies
on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, familial status, or
handicap:
(i) a detailed outline(s)
of course(s) to be offered in the first year of the school's approval with hours
to be spent on each subject area to be covered in the course(s) and all planned
classroom and homework exercises;
(j)
a bibliography of all texts and reference materials for use in the
course(s);
(k) a comprehensive
description of the measures and standards it will employ to evaluate student
performance in order to determine whether a student successfully completes a
course;
(l) a description of the
learning objectives for each instructional hour of the course(s) (what the
student should know or be able to do upon mastery of the content of each hour of
study);
(m) copies of all final
examinations together with proposed answers for any course(s) requiring an
examination;
(n) a list of all
instructors and applications for approval of classification course instructors
not yet approved by the Board under the standards of Chapter 539-5;
(o) a schedule of planned offerings of the
course(s) for the first calendar year for which the school seeks approval
including the date, time, and place of any offering;
(p) the fee schedule planned for the course
offering(s) during the first year;
(q) a copy of the Notice to Students required
by Rule
539-2-.09; and
(r) the name of a school director and/or
coordinator who shall be responsible for certifying student completion of all
courses covered under this Rule.
(2) An approved course is one for which an
approved school maintains and will make readily available to an authorized
representative of the Board the following data:
(a) a detailed course outline with hours to be
spent on each subject area to be covered in the course and classroom and homework
exercises;
(b) detailed learning
objectives for each instructional hour of the course (i.e. what the student
should know or be able to do upon mastery of the content of each hour of
study);
(c) text materials utilized
in the course;
(d) daily tests, final
examinations, or other materials used to evaluate student performance;
(e) records that identify each student and the
student's attendance record and final grade for any course;
(f) a list of the instructors for the course;
and
(g) summaries of student
evaluations of the courses.
(3) An applicant for school approval may not
hold any course out as approved by the Board until the Board posts the school
approval in its offices or the offeror receives a certificate of school approval
from the Board.
(4) Any continuing
education course addressing a topic or topics other than those listed in Rule
539-2-.05(1)(b) must
have the prior written authorization of the Board.
(5) An approved school shall provide the Board
in writing no later than 14 days prior to offering a new course the following
information:
(a) the title of the
course;
(b) the number of credit
hours for the course; and
(c) whether
the school intends the course for registration, licensure, certified residential,
certified general, and/or continuing education credit.
The Board shall provide the school with a course code to be
included by the school on the educational certificate issued to students and on
the course roster filed with the Board as required by 539-2-.08(3).
O.C.G.A. Secs.
43-39A-3, 43-39A-8, 43-39A-9, 43-39A-11, 43-39A-13, 43-39A-18, 43-39A-22.
