10 University Daily Kansan Campus/Area Thursday, Oct. 17, 1985 Regents to consider final grade on education test By Jill White Of the Kansan staff The Kansas Board of Regents will consider a recommendation by deans of education schools today to define what constitutes a passing grade on the test required to enter a school of education, officials said yesterday. The state requires students to pass the Pre-Professional Skills Test to enter a school of education in the universities, but the Regents don't define what "passing" means, said Jerry Bailey, associate dean of education. Paul Haack, acting dean of education, said the Regents would consider two other requests from the University of Kansas. One proposal will enable KU to create a National Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education if KU wins a national competition for grant money from the National Institutes for Education. The other is a proposal that would allow the University to establish a certification program for students who want to become teachers of the blind. The Regents will consider the request from KU and the other deans of education during their meeting today at Pittsburg State University. Haack said the Regents schools adopted the Pre-Professional Skills Test several years ago because it was one of the few tests available to assess basic skills. The test is composed of two areas, writing and math. The highest possible score is 190 in both areas. Haack scored 206 in both areas to acquire 172 points in both areas to pass. "The deans aren't overly impressed with the quality of the test for our purposes," Haack said. "We felt that it might be appropriate to have some alternatives to exempt students from the test." One alternative would exempt students who scored 18 or above on prove the establishment of The National Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education so if they win the national competition, they can start the program sooner. The University of Florida, Grambling State University and KU are applying jointly for the grant. Two other universities had applied. But Haack said most of the competition was between KU and the University of Texas at Austin, which is where the center now is located. "Data we've collected shows that 98 percent of the students who get 18 or above on both sections score more than the test's required 172 points," Haack said. If KU's consortium wins the grant, it will receive $1 million a year for the next five years to do research, he said. The winner will be selected in mid-November. 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