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Licensure / Certification Pass Rate

Kentucky Community and Technical College System

Performance Measures
2016-2022 Strategic Plan

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Licensure / Certification Pass Rate

Actual

College VFA 2014 Cohort
Rate
VFA 2015 Cohort
Rate
VFA 2016 Cohort
Rate
VFA 2017 Cohort
Rate
Ashland 93.3% 97.6% 100.0% 100.0%
Big Sandy 0.0% 100.0% 96.3% 98.1%
Bluegrass 87.5% 93.8% 82.5% 95.2%
Elizabethtown 100.0% 89.6% 94.7% 95.9%
Gateway 0.0% 96.2% 90.3% 89.0%
Hazard 75.8% 90.3% 83.3% 79.4%
Henderson 85.7% 95.0% 91.0% 73.7%
Hopkinsville 100.0% 100.0% 95.8% 89.1%
Jefferson 100.0% 99.2% 84.7% 84.7%
Madisonville 0.0% 93.4% 93.9% 88.2%
Maysville 0.0% 91.7% 93.6% 92.6%
Owensboro 0.0% 95.1% 84.9% 90.1%
Somerset 100.0% 97.1% 94.4% 92.1%
Southcentral KY 100.0% 92.1% 90.1% 97.3%
Southeast KY 0.0% 90.3% 75.9% 81.4%
West KY 50.0% 67.7% 87.2% 87.9%
KCTCS 91.0% 88.9% 88.8% 90.2%

Targets

Exceed National Average 89.3% for VFA 2016 Cohort

College VFA 2018 Cohort Rate VFA 2019 Cohort Rate VFA 2020 Cohort Rate VFA 2021 Cohort Rate VFA 2022 Cohort Rate
Ashland          
Big Sandy          
Bluegrass          
Elizabethtown          
Gateway          
Hazard          
Henderson          
Hopkinsville          
Jefferson          
Madisonville          
Maysville          
Owensboro          
Somerset          
Southcentral KY          
Southeast KY          
West KY          
KCTCS          

 

Definition: The number of students in the Voluntary Framework of Accountability’s (VFA) Career and Technical Education (CTE) completer/leaver cohort who achieve a passing grade on their first attempt of a licensure exam within one year divided by the number of students in the CTE completer / leaver cohort who sat for the first time to take the licensure exam within one year.

Note: VFA cohorts refer to the annual VFA Career and Technical Education (CTE) Cohorts. For 2017, the cohort is the 2013-14 CTE Cohort.

Objective: Exceed national average for cohort pass rate.

Currently published national average is 89.3% from VFA Benchmarking Colleges. Benchmarking cohort does not include KCTCS colleges

 

Source: VFA based on KCTCS data as submitted in PeopleSoft

Compiled by: Office of Research and Policy Analysis

Measure Updated: 10/09/2017