Establishing Guidelines for Awarding Differentiated Numbers of Verified Credit for Career and Technical Education Certification and Licensure Examinations
Resolution Number 2002-16
June 26, 2002
WHEREAS, Governor Mark Warner has requested the Board of Education to consider developing administrative guidelines for awarding differentiated numbers of verified credit for career and technical certification and licensure examinations and that these guidelines be retroactive to students who first entered the ninth grade in 2000-01; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Education has approved a list of industry certification and licensure examinations to satisfy the requirements for the Board of Education’s Career and Technical Education Seal, the Board of Education’s Seal of Advanced Mathematics and Technology, and student-selected verified credit; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Education’s current administrative guidelines for awarding verified credit permit students to earn only one verified unit of credit for each certification or licensure examination passed; and
WHEREAS, - current procedures do not take into consideration the complexity of the career and technical examinations or the number of standard units of credit associated with completing a courses sequence that prepares for these examinations; and
WHEREAS, Delegate Thomas M. Jackson, state board member, worked with the Department of Education and an advisory committee comprised of career and technical educators, division administrators, and professionals representing business and industry to develop guidelines and recommendations;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Education that the guidelines (below) be approved for awarding differentiated numbers of verified credit for career and technical education certification and licensure examinations and that these guidelines be retroactive to students who first entered the ninth grade in 2000-01.
Adopted in Richmond, Virginia, This Twenty-Sixth Day of June in the Year 2002
BOARD OF EDUCATION GUIDELINES FOR AWARDING
DIFFERENTIATED NUMBERS OF VERIFIED CREDIT FOR CAREER AND
TECHNICAL EDUCATION CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE EXAMINATIONS:
The following guidelines shall be retroactive to students who first entered the ninth grade in 2000-2001.
Criteria for Awarding Student-Selected Verified Credit
- Student-selected verified credit will be awarded for certification or licensure examinations that meet all of the following criteria:
- Industry certification or licensure examinations that are approved to satisfy the requirements for the Board of Education’s Career and Technical Education Seal and the Board of Education’s Seal of Advanced Mathematics and Technology will satisfy requirements for student-selected verified credits.
- The teacher and/or the career and technical education program must be certified by the issuing organization relative to the industry certification or license.
- A standard credit may not be verified more than once.
- One student-selected verified credit will be awarded for passing each certification or licensure examination that meets all of the above criteria and the student earns one standard unit of credit only in the career and technical education concentration or specialization.
- Two student-selected verified credits will be awarded for passing each certification or licensure examination that meets all of the above criteria; and
- the student meets the career and technical education concentration or specialization course requirements for program completer; and
- the student earns at least two standard units of credit in the career and technical education concentration or specialization.
Signature:
Mark C. Christie, President
Board of Education
Adopted in the Minutes of the Virginia Board of Education
June 26, 2002