(a)(No change.) (b)Renewal of accreditation. No more than six months prior to the expiration of its current accreditation, a school may apply for accreditation for another four year period. Approval or disapproval of an application shall be subject to the standards for initial applications for accreditation, as well as the requirement of §1101.301 of the Act. (1)For purposes of calculating the exam passage rate of a commission-accredited school for a license category, each type of licensing examination that a student takes for the first time will have a school affiliation, unless the last core course taken for the purpose of meeting the education requirements for the type of license was taken at a school that is not accredited by the commission or the course was taken more than two years before the date the student submitted the course to the commission. (2)(No change.) (3)A school's passage rate for each license category will be calculated and published quarterly by dividing the number of students affiliated with that school, as defined in paragraph (2) of this subsection, who passed the examination on their first attempt in the four-year period ending on the last day of the previous quarter by the total number of the school's graduates who took the exam for the first time in the same period. If a school offers courses toward multiple license types, the exam results for that school will be calculated and posted by license category [type and aggregated into the school's overall passage rate for that period]. The passage rate for each license category that will be used to determine whether the accreditation standard has been met for the license category is the most current [aggregate] rate published by the commission as of the date the commission receives the timely application for reaccreditation or, if the accreditation expired before being renewed, the most recent rate published by the commission as of the expiration date of the school's accreditation. (4)In determining whether a school qualifies for reaccreditation for the license category based on its examination passage rate, the commission may consider a variety of factors, including the overall [separate] passage rate [rates] for sales, broker, and inspector applicants and trends within the school's passage rate over the four-year accreditation period. (5)The commission shall calculate and publish the average pass rate for each license type each quarter by dividing the total number of applicants who passed the qualifying examination the first time in the four-year period ending on the last day of the previous quarter by the total number of applicants who took the examination for the first time in the same period. (c)(No change.)
This agency hereby certifies
that the proposal has
been reviewed by legal counsel and found to be within the agency's
legal authority to adopt.
Filed with the Office
of the Secretary of State on August 4, 2011
TRD-201102968 Loretta R. DeHay
General Counsel
Texas Real Estate Commission
Earliest possible date of adoption: September 18, 2011
For further information, please call: (512) 936-3092
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