2015 Delaware Educator Preparation Program Reports

General Overview

The 2015 Educator Preparation Program Reports were crafted, after five years of deliberation and stakeholder input, as one initiative among statewide and national efforts to improve the quality and transparency of educator preparation. This work was further catalyzed by Delaware Senate Bill 51 (signed by Governor Markell, Summer 2013), and the resulting regulation (Delaware Regulation 290). The majority of the state’s early career educators -- about 60 percent -- are prepared by Delaware preparation programs; the reports are part of Delaware’s larger effort to strengthen such programs throughout the state. These reports are one important way to measure and assess the quality of Delaware preparation programs in their ability to recruit, train, and develop quality educators for the state’s students. Each report contains five (5) scored domains: Recruitment, Candidate Performance, Placement, Retention, and Graduate Performance. Each domain is comprised of two (2) to four (4) metrics. There is one domain (Perceptions) for which data has not yet been collected and is therefore unscored.

Program representatives had more than 30 calendar days to review program reports and submit responses with feedback both general and specific. This feedback can be viewed here.

These reports are preliminary and thus without formal regulatory consequences in 2015.