Elementary Education Employer Survey Results (Student Achievement Measure-7):
Each year, instructors in the Teacher Education Division contact the principals of schools that employ BCF graduates who have earned the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Elementary Education in the previous academic year and who are now working as public and private school teachers. Principals are asked to rate these first-year teachers in terms of the Elementary Education Program Student Learning Outcomes (which mirror the State of Florida’s FEAPS—Florida Educator Accomplished Practices). These questions ask about the graduate’s performance in various categories such as: communicating effectively, providing opportunities for students to learn higher-order thinking skills, creating a safe, equitable, and stimulating classroom environment, being knowledgeable of the subject matter, producing learning plans that are developmentally appropriate and engaging, and using appropriate technologies to deliver instruction.
Institutional Goal
The Baptist College of Florida has set a goal of maintaining a minimum 73% positive response rate for first-year evaluation of the graduates of its Bachelor of Arts Degree in Elementary Education Program. The 73% minimum goal is based on the average of the most recent rates of evaluation for these graduates (98%). That average was then reduced by 25% to arrive at a figure that would account for fluctuating rates of student achievement, unpredicted economic factors impacting student perseverance, family and health complications, and any other mitigating factors to student success that might impact students in a smaller, open-admission institution of higher learning such as The Baptist College of Florida.
Conversely, The Baptist College of Florida has set an aspirational goal of reaching a 100% positive response rate for first-year evaluations of the graduates of its Bachelor of Arts Degree in Elementary Education Program. The 100% aspirational goal for first-year evaluations is based on that same average of recent rates of evaluation for these graduates, but was then increased by 25% to arrive at a figure that would demonstrate significant achievement for a smaller, open-admission institution of higher learning such as The Baptist College of Florida.
Elementary Education Employer Satisfaction Survey Results for the 2020-2021 Academic Year:
For the September 2022 Employer Satisfaction Survey, no results were available (there were no graduates of the Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education program in the previous year). The same survey, however, did provide responses from principals who had first-year teachers employed who were graduates of two other BCF Teacher Education degree programs (the Bachelor of Arts in Music Education degree and the Bachelor of Arts in Education Studies degree). Survey responses for first-year teachers in these two programs were 100% positive in relation to the twelve categories that mirror the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices. Positive responses were defined as principals either "Agreeing" or "Strongly Agreeing" that the first-year teachers were successful in these various categories.