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IV. GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL ACADEMIC DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

THE PsyD COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION

GRADING OF THE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION

Within each of the segments, grading will be on a five-point scale.

Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
1 = Excellent 3 = Borderline
2 = Good 4 = Fail
2.5 = Pass

The Department Chairs or their designees from among GSAPP faculty choose readers for each question. Students are anonymous to the reader. All students receive written notification of the results of the examination. A student's responses and the rating sheets with readers' comments will be available in the Departmental Administrator's office after written notification has been sent out to all students.

The grading procedure for each question of the General and Program segments are:

Grade Given by Reader #1
Grade Given by Reader #2
Grade Given by Reader #3
Questions Response Rated as
1 or 2
Not sent to
Any further readers
Satisfactory
3or 4
3 or 4
Not sent further
Unsatisfactory
3 or 4
1, 2, or 2.5
1, 2, or 2.5
Satisfactory
3 or 4
1, 2, or 2.5
3 or 5
Unsatisfactory

Procedures for Dealing with Unsatisfactory Grades in the Program Segments.

  1. Remediation--if responses to one or two domains are graded 3, the student will be notified in writing by the Department Chair about the remediation procedure that will be employed to remedy the unsatisfactory responses. Students who have to Remediate a question(s) will receive a form to be completed by the remediating faculty member. It is the student's responsibility to have the form available when the remediation is completed. The form and the remediated written response are given to the Program Administrator.

  2. Retake--unsatisfactory grades on three or more questions or domains will require a written RETAKE of the entire General or Program segment.

  3. A grade of 4 (upheld by a second reader) on any one or two questions requires a written re-take of questions which deal with the same areas of knowledge (domain) as the original questions. The retake of the question(s) occurs at the next scheduled comps administration.

Students will receive a written letter with the results of the Retake.

General or Program Segment
Further Action
i. Three or (four) questions graded satisfactory; one (or two) respones graded 3 and 3, or 3 and 4 by two readers Program Director designates remediation for the unsatisfactory responses.
ii. One or two questions graded satisfactory; other responses graded any combination of satisfactory Written RETAKE of ENTIRE program or general exam at specified future regularly shceduled comps test date.
iii. Three or four questions graded satisfactory; one or two responses are graded 4 by two readers Written re-take of question(s) in the failed domains, at a regularly scheduled comps testing date in the future.
iv. Three questions graded satisfactory; one response graded 3 and 3, or 3 and 4; one response graded 4 (upheld by two readers)

For response graded 3 & 3 or 3 & 4, see i above; for response graded 4 & 4, see iii.

If fewer than 50% of the questions are graded satisfactory, the procedure is written retake as in ii above; if one response is graded as unsatisfactory, follow iii or iv above.