Current through Rules and Regulations filed through March 20, 2024
(1)
Frequently, some applicants for appraiser classification have difficulty
attending classes to meet the law's education requirements because they live at
significant distances from approved schools offering these education courses,
because of extended personal illness, because of induction into the armed forces,
or because of other similar extraordinary circumstances. To meet these types of
problems, the Board approves the offering of independent-based courses.
(2) Every course approved under this Rule shall
teach to mastery. Teaching to mastery means that the course shall, as a minimum:
(a) divide the material into major units as
approved by the Board;
(b) divide
each of the major units of content into modules of instruction for delivery on a
computer or other approved interactive audio or audiovisual programs;
(c) specify the learning objectives for each
module of instruction. The learning objectives must be comprehensive enough to
insure that if all the objectives are met, the entire content of the course will
be mastered;
(d) specify an
objective, quantitative criterion for mastery used for each learning
objective;
(e) implement a structured
learning method by which each student is able to attain each learning
objective;
(f) provide means of
diagnostic assessment of each student's performance on an ongoing basis during
each module of instruction;
1. this assessment
process shall measure what each student has learned and not learned at regular
intervals throughout each module of instruction, and
2. the diagnostic assessment must specifically
assess the mastery of each concept covered in the content material.
(g) provide a means of tailoring the
instruction to the needs of each student as identified in (e) above. The process
of tailoring the instruction shall insure that each student receives adequate
remediation for specific deficiencies identified by the diagnostic
assessment;
(h) continue the
appropriate remediation on an individualized basis until the student demonstrates
achievement of each mastery criterion; and
(i) require that the student demonstrate
mastery of all material covered by the learning objectives for the module before
the module is completed.
(3) Prior to the development of specific
computer-based courses to be offered to meet education requirements, a school
must submit to the Board for its approval satisfactory documentation of the
method by which each element of mastery on paragraph (2) of this Rule is to be
accomplished. If the Board authorizes that method, the school may utilize that
method in developing any courses it may offer to meet appraisers' education
processes implemented with computer-based courses must be based on sound
instructional strategies that have been systematically designed and proven
effective through educational research and development. The basis and rationale
for any proposed instructional approach must be specified in any request for
approval.
(4) Courses approved under
this Rule must also meet the criteria outlined in Rule
539-2-.02, except those covering
in-class instruction. Except where the Board has granted permission in writing to
do otherwise, persons developing computer-based courses must:
(a) utilize at least nine persons in testing
programs in order to evaluate for the developer the quality of content and the
user friendliness of software and hardware. Of those nine persons, at least three
must be unclassified, at least three must be classified appraisers holding
classifications at the level of or higher than the courses being developed, and
at least six must be non-educators. Persons developing such courses must document
that those testing the programs have varying skill and knowledge levels of
computers and appraising, and
(b)
make reasonably available to an authorized representative of the Board
documentation on the development and testing processes utilized in the
computer-based courses.
(5) The following types of programs will not be
deemed as meeting the requirements of this Rule:
(a) those which consist primarily of text
material presented on a computer or other audio or audiovisual programs rather
than in printed material;
(b) those
which consist primarily of questions similar to those on the state licensing
examination;
(c) those which consist
primarily of combinations of the elements in (a) and (b) above.
(6) An approved instructor and/or
the school coordinator/director shall grade the written course work required of
students in computer-based courses.
(7) Every computer-based course approved to
meet the educational requirement for state registered real property appraiser,
for state licensed real property appraiser, for state certified residential real
property appraiser, for state certified general real property appraiser, and for
continuing education shall consist of interactive computer-based or other
interactive audio or audiovisual programs which will reasonably require the
student to expend in completing the course the number of hours for which the
course is approved.
(8) Every school
offering an approved computer-based course shall offer those courses under an
approved instructor who shall:
(a) be available
to answer students' questions or provide them assistance as necessary;
(b) provide reasonable oversight of students'
work in order to insure that the student who completes the work is the student
who is enrolled in the course;
(c)
obtain from each student the following certification statement:
I certify that I have personally completed each assigned module
of instruction.
__________________ ____________________________
Date Student Signature
(d) certify students as successfully completing
a computer-based course only if the student:
1.
has completed all instructional modules required to demonstrate mastery of the
material,
2. has attended any hours
of live instruction and/or testing required for a given course, and
3. has passed the final examination, if the
Board, in approving the course requires such an examination.
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.
