Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 715 - HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING COMMISSION
Division 45 - PRIVATE CAREER SCHOOLS
Section 715-045-0220 - Proficiency-based Programs
Universal Citation: OR Admin Rules 715-045-0220
Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
(1) For purposes of this rule, a 'practical operation' is the demonstration and application of a relevant skill or group of skills necessary for work in barbering, hair design, esthetics, or nail technology. For the purposes of this rule, the 'model curriculum' is a curriculum established and maintained by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission which details mandatory curricular requirements, including, but not limited to practical operations requirements, safety and sanitation requirements, and career development requirements established in this rule. The model curriculum is available for review by all schools.
(2) As an alternative to the minimum hourly training requirements specified in OAR 715-045-0200, a proficiency-based training program that is self-paced may be approved by the Executive Director when the school has developed written program requirements, including:
(a) Clearly defined student
performance objectives that measure levels of performance for each practical
operation and the knowledge required for students to successfully pass the
appropriate practitioner licensing examination and successfully and safely
perform on members of the public all services allowed in the scope of practice
of the practitioner license;
(b) No
earlier than May 1, 2019 and no later than July 1, 2019, continuing to be in
effect thereafter, a minimum number of practical operations in the student's
chosen course of study, in accordance with the model curriculum as developed by
the Commission:
(A) For hair Design; 455
practical operations.
(B) For
barbering; 465 practical operations.
(C) For esthetics; 220 practical
operations.
(D) For nail
Technology; 70 practical operations.
(c) A student enrolled in a program at the
time subsection (1) (b) of this rule takes effect shall be allowed to complete
the program in which they are enrolled under the terms for their original
enrollment agreement, unless a rider to the enrollment agreement, signed by
both the student and an authorized representative of the school, is executed,
specifying that the student agrees to complete such program under different
requirements. Before a rider to the enrollment agreement is executed, the
school shall:
(A) Review student's current
program requirements in comparison to the revised program
requirements.
(B) Provide the
student information in writing about which set of program requirements may be
most beneficial to student, in terms of length of time to complete, cost, and
use of federal financial aid.
(C)
Provide student with a program that gives credit for applicable hours already
earned and practical operations completed and outlines a revised course of
study that meets the minimum requirements.
(d) Determine if cost differences, if any,
between the student's current program and the revised program result in an
overpayment on behalf of the student, and issue any necessary refund to the
student, except as provided by federal law or other controlling statute or
regulation.
(e) Individual progress
records maintained for the purpose of monitoring each student's progress
through the instructional program and recording and verifying actual hours of
instruction, number of practical operations and performance achievement by each
student;
(f) A curriculum design,
which the Executive Director determines to be comparable to the Commission
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;
(g) 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 practical operations on members of the
general public;
(h) 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 negotiations between the school and student.
Copies of revisions must be given to the student and on file in the student's
academic file;
(i) 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;
(j)
Both or either school catalogs and student enrollment agreements, that show the
average time for students to complete the requirements for the various
certificate programs during the previous reporting period;
(k) An annual report at the time of
relicensing to the Commission showing the actual total hours of instruction
received by each student who has completed or left the school during the
previous reporting period;
(l)
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
(m) 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 OAR 715-045-0200(1), and no
additional tuition may be charged. The student shall notify the school of
his/her decision within two weeks of notice of competency.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 345.325 & ORS 345.400
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 345.400
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