Graduate Student Achievement
Christopher Newport provides four Master’s degree programs: Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT), Master of Financial Analysis (MFinA), Master of Science in Environmental Science (MS-ENVS), and Master of Science in Applied Physics and Computer Science (MS-APCS). To measure the student achievement of graduate students at Christopher Newport, the university uses the following key student completion indicators.
Christopher Newport uses the number of conferred degrees as one of its measures for student achievement in graduate studies. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) monitors the number of degrees offered by Virginia institutions and has set productivity standards for the degrees and disciplines offered across the state. CNU has set these productivity standards as the thresholds of acceptability, representing the minimum expectation, for degree conferral.
Master of Arts in Teaching | Master of Financial Analysis | Master of Science in Applied Physics and Computer Science | Master of Science in Environmental Science | |
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Aspirational Goal | 80 | 36 | 12 | 15 |
SCHEV Productivity Requirement/Threshold of Acceptability | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
2022 | 47 | 13 | 9 | 14 |
2021 | 49 | 18 | 10 | 8 |
2020 | 52 | - | 10 | 1 |
2019 | 60 | - | 6 | 7 |
2018 | 77 | - | 7 | 12 |
2017 | 70 | - | 9 | 7 |
*A new program, the Master of Financial Analysis program had its first graduating cohort in 2021
The Division of Graduate Studies has focused on reducing the time-to-completion for our traditional Master of Science students over the past several years. The interventions implemented have worked to reduce and /or maintain the time-to-degree for the Master of Science degrees, the Bachelor’s to Master’s degrees, as well as the MAT degrees.
The Division of Graduate Studies goal is to maintain a time-to-completion for the master’s degrees of no more than three years. This will serve as the threshold of acceptability, representing the minimum expectation, and our time-to-completion goal. This threshold is consistent with the expected completion for master’s degrees, considering the multitude of variables that affect the navigation of degree requirements.
The Virginia Department of Education requires all K-12 teachers to pass the VCLA, RVE, and Praxis II exams to obtain a teaching license. Therefore, the Master of Arts in Teaching degree program has embedded these exams to be completed by applicable pre-service K12 teachers to ensure readiness for the required student-teaching internship.
In all tests, the Commonwealth of Virginia established minimum state cut-off scores for passing which are used as Christopher Newport’s thresholds of acceptability, representing the minimum expectation. The Office of Teacher Preparation collects these data for its Council for the Accreditation of Education Preparation (CAEP) accreditation process.
VCLA
Cohort | Reading Score | Writing Score | State cut-off/Threshold of Acceptability | Composite Score | State cut-off/Threshold of Acceptability | ||||
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Year | n | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | ||
2020 | 51 | 269.8 | 16.6 | 247.6 | 10.4 | 235 | 517.4 | 23.2 | 470 |
2021 | 49 | 273.9 | 18.1 | 255.2 | 17.3 | 235 | 529.5 | 30.6 | 470 |
2022 | 53 | 250.1 | 15.6 | 262.9 | 17.2 | 235 | 513.2 | 24.7 | 470 |
RVE
Cohort | N | Mean | SD | Mean of State Test Takers | State cut-off/Threshold of Acceptability | Mean Points Above State Cut-Off |
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2020 | 19 | 182.0 | 6.7 | 174.2 | 157 | 25 |
2021 | 29 | 181.0 | 10.6 | 174.4 | 157 | 24 |
2022 | 29 | 173.0 | 31.0 | 171.5 | 157 | 16 |
Praxis II
Art | Biology | Chemistry | English | ESL | Math | Music | Physics | Spanish | Social Studies | |
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State Cut-Off / Threshold of Acceptability | 158 | 155 | 155 | 167 | 149 | 160 | 160 | N/A | 161 | 161 |
Cohort 2020 | 168.7 | 168.0 | N/A | 183.1 | 183.5 | 167.7 | 175.6 | N/A | 179.0 | 174.8 |
Cohort 2021 | N/A | N/A | 160.0 | N/A | 178.0 | 171.7 | 175.9 | N/A | 174.0 | 179.6 |
Cohort 2022 | 162.0 | 179.5 | N/A | 180.1 | 183.5 | 177.7 | 174.0 | N/A | N/A | 172.6 |
Elementary: Reading and Language Arts | Elementary: Math | Elementary: Science | Elementary: Social Studies | |
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State Cut-Off / Threshold of Acceptability | 157 | 157 | 159 | 155 |
Cohort 2020 | 176.0 | 185.1 | 174.6 | 177.9 |
Cohort 2021 | 175.7 | 184.7 | 175.6 | 171.3 |
Cohort 2022 | 176.8 | 181.1 | 173.6 | 173.6 |