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California Psychology Licensing Exam Rates of Graduates of Accredited and Unaccredited Programs.


Graduates of regionally accredited accredited

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 programs had a significantly higher pass rate (64.6%) on the written exam (Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology) than that of graduates of unaccredited programs (39.0%). The respective pass rates ,47.5% and 38.8%, on the oral exam Noun 1. oral exam - an examination conducted by spoken communication
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 were also significantly different. The implications of the finding were discussed.

The purpose of the present study was to compare the California pass/fail rates of graduates of regionally accredited and those of regionally unaccredited program on both the oral exam for licensure and the written exam, the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP EPPP Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology
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 admission standards, few students and graduates, higher faculty to student ratios and a traditional rather than professional school orientation had higher EPPP scores (Yu, Rinaldi, Templer, Colbert, Siscoe, and Van Patten The Van Patten family has made a name for themselves in Hollywood as a family of actors and directors.

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, 1997; Templer and Tomeo, 1998; Templer and Tomeo, 2000). There has been, however, no previous studies in the literature that compared regionally accredited with regionally unaccredited doctoral programs in psychology. The Educational Reporting Service (1995) does not provide the mean EPPP scores of institutions that are not regionally accredited.

California is relatively unique in that graduates of unaccredited schools are eligible for licensure. As pointed out by Safarjan (1998), in California the standards applied by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education vocational education, training designed to advance individuals' general proficiency, especially in relation to their present or future occupations. The term does not normally include training for the professions.  pertain per·tain  
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 primarily to financial responsibility and not to quality standards. Safarjan said that graduates of unaccredited schools cannot be licensed in states other than California, and possibly Colorado, and that graduates of unaccredited schools are limited in regard to eligibility for employment, managed care companies, pre and post doctoral internship internship /in·tern·ship/ (in´tern-ship) the position or term of service of an intern in a hospital.
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 programs, the National Register, and ability to obtain full membership in APA (All Points Addressable) Refers to an array (bitmapped screen, matrix, etc.) in which all bits or cells can be individually manipulated.

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Method

The number of written exam (EPPP) passes and failures as a function of type of program graduated from was obtained from the California Board of Psychology for April 1996, April 1997, and October, 1997. The comparable information was obtained for the oral exam in June 1996, June 1997, and January 1998 (The Board does not provide mean scores). The data from institutions outside the United States and Canada was not included in this study. Programs that were not listed as regionally accredited in the directories of the 6 regional accreditation Regional accreditation is a term used in the United States to refer to the process by which one of several accrediting bodies, each serving one of six defined geographic areas of the country, accredits schools, colleges, and universities.  associations in the United States were presumed to be not regionally accredited.

Results and Discussion

On the written (EPPP) exam, 127 (39.0%) of the 326 exams taken by unaccredited program graduates were passed, and 594 (64.6%) of the 920 exams taken by accredited program graduates were passed, [X.sup.2] (1, N = 1246 ) = 63.96, p [is less than] .001. On the oral exam, 104 (38.8%) of the 268 exams taken by unaccredited program graduates were passed, and 574 (47.5%) of the 1474 exams taken by accredited program graduates were passed, [X.sup.2] (1, N = 678 ) = 6.42, p [is less than] .02. A likely explanation for the greater discrepancy on the written than the oral exam is that the talent gap is not large because of the large percentage of unaccredited program graduates who were not eligible to take the oral exam because they failed the written exam.

The significantly superior performance of doctoral recipients of accredited programs over doctoral recipients from unaccredited programs is not surprising. The present authors would emphatically not encourage persons from enrolling in unaccredited programs if their GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) A tunneling protocol developed by Cisco that allows network layer packets to contain packets from a different protocol. It is widely used to tunnel protocols inside IP packets for virtual private networks (VPNs).  scores, undergraduate record, geographical preference, and responsibilities would enable them to go to an accredited graduate program. Even if an unaccredited program is the only program accessible to a person considering a career in psychology, we still urge great caution. On the other hand, it is apparent that graduates of unaccredited programs can and do become licensed to practice psychology in the state of California. To categorically classify all unaccredited programs as "diploma mills" may be neither fair nor accurate.

References

Educational Reporting Service. (1995). EPPP performance by designated doctoral programs in psychology. New York New York, state, United States
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Safarjan, B. (1998). Unaccredited schools and CPA's advertising policy. California Psychologist, 31 (2), 4.

Templer, D.I. & Tomeo, M.E. (1998). Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology: Clerical errors corrected but inferences unchanged. Psychological Science, 9, 83-84.

Templer, D.I. & Tomeo, M.E. (2000). Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology subtest scores of professional and traditional clinical psychology program graduates. Journal of Psychology, 134, 140-142.

Yu, L.M., Rinaldi, S.A., Templer, D.I., Colbert, L., Siscoe, K., & Van Patten, K. (1997). EPPP score as a function of clinical psychology graduate program. Psychological Science, 8, 347-350.

Donald I. Templer, Marie Tomeo, Michael Harville, and Steve Pointkowski, California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno.

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Donald I. Templer, 5130 E. Clinton Way, Fresno, CA 93727
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