Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
KRS
158.816,
161.020,
161.028,
161.030
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
161.030(3)(a) requires that
all new teachers, including out-of-state teachers with less than two (2) years'
experience, successfully complete appropriate assessments prior to initial
certification in Kentucky and serve a one (1) year internship. This
administrative regulation establishes the assessments and passing scores for
occupation-based career and technical education teachers certified under
16
KAR 2:020.
Section
1.
(1) All new information
technology, industrial education, health science, human service, and public
service teacher applicants, and other applicants for occupation-based career
and technical education teacher certificates both with and without a teacher
preparation degree, and out-of-state applicants for occupation-based career and
technical education certification with less than two (2) years of teaching
experience shall successfully complete the appropriate assessments prior to
initial Kentucky certification.
(2)
Each applicant who has not completed an educator preparation program or does
not currently hold a specialized associates degree within the specific
technical field of certification, verified by official transcript, shall
successfully complete the following assessments for communication skills and
general knowledge:
(a) ACT:
1. Reading - score of twenty (20) or
higher;
2. Mathematics - score of
nineteen (19) or higher; and
3.
English (Writing) - score of eighteen (18) or higher;
(b) SAT:
1.
Reading - score of 470 or higher on Evidence-Based Reading and
Writing;
2. Mathematics - score of
460 or higher; and
3. English
(Writing) - score of 430 or higher on Evidence-Based Reading and
Writing;
(c) Kentucky
On-Line Testing (KYOTE):
1. Reading - score
of twenty (20) or higher;
2.
Mathematics - score of twenty-two (22) or higher on College Readiness
Mathematics or score of fourteen (14) or higher on College Algebra;
and
3. English (Writing) - score of
six (6) or higher; or
(d) General Education Readiness (GED):
1. Reading - score of 165 or higher on
Reasoning Through the Language Arts;
2. Mathematics - score of 165 or higher on
Mathematical Reasoning; and
3.
English (Writing) - score of 165 or higher on Reasoning Through the Language
Arts.
(3) All
applicants shall demonstrate subject matter competency via passage of the
specialty assessment in the occupational area for which certification is to be
granted or completion of the appropriate state or national industry licensure,
or certification.
(4) The
assessments shall be divided into the following three (3) categories:
(a) Industrial education and information
technology:
1. National Occupational
Competency Testing Institute's (NOCTI) Teacher Occupational Competency Test
(TOCT) if one (1) corresponding to the teaching specialty is
available;
2. Kentucky Department
of Education developed or identified assessment corresponding to the teaching
specialty;
3. Appropriate state or
national industry licensure or certification; or
4. Minimum postsecondary educational
attainment in a related area of study;
(b) Health science and human services:
1. The appropriate state or national industry
licensure or certification; or
2.
Minimum postsecondary program in a related area of study; or
(c) Public-service; the
appropriate state or national industry licensure or certification.
Section 2. The Education
Professional Standards Board (EPSB) shall require the specialty assessments and
passing scores for new applicants and educators seeking an additional
certificate under
16
KAR 2:020.
(1)
Specialty assessment scores for new applicants and educators seeking an
additional certificate under
16
KAR 2:020 shall be determined by the EPSB in
consultation with the Kentucky Department of Education.
(2) The EPSB shall specify the specialty
assessments and passing scores for new applicants and educators seeking an
additional certificate via order of the EPSB. The order shall be posted on the
Web site for the EPSB.
Section
3. An applicant in any occupation-based career and technical
education program for which no appropriate specialty assessment is yet
available shall not be required to take a specialty assessment, except for
research and validation purposes. After a new program has been piloted and
fully implemented, an assessment shall be developed or identified and only new
applicants shall be required to pass the new specialty assessment.
Section 4.
(1) An applicant for initial certification
may take the assessments on any of the dates established by the Kentucky
Department of Education or other appropriate entity.
(2) Applicants shall authorize assessment
results to be forwarded to the Education Professional Standards Board
(EPSB).
Section 5.
Applicants shall pay an examination fee directly to the appropriate entity for
the required assessments.
Section
6. An applicant who fails to achieve at least the minimum score on
any of the appropriate assessments may retake the assessment or assessments.
Initial certification shall not be granted until acceptable scores are achieved
in each of the required areas.
Section
7. Assessment Recency.
(1) An
applicant for initial or additional certification under
16
KAR 2:020 shall comply with the assessment recency
requirements established in this section.
(2) An assessment established in this
administrative regulation shall be valid for five (5) years from the
administration date.
(3) A passing
score on an assessment established in this administrative regulation and
completed on or after January 1, 2002 shall be valid for five (5) years from
the administration date.
(4)
(a) An applicant shall complete application
for certification to the EPSB within the five (5) year validity period of the
assessment and the passing score.
(b) An applicant who fails to complete
application for certification to the EPSB within the five (5) year validity
period of the assessment and the passing score shall retake the appropriate
assessment or assessments and achieve the appropriate passing score or scores
required for certification at the time of application.
Section 8. The EPSB in conjunction
with the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Center for Education
and Workforce Statistics shall collect data and conduct analyses of these
assessments to determine whether the assessment scores are appropriate and to
evaluate the adequacy of the educator preparation program.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY:
KRS
158.816,
161.028,
161.030