In general, you will report current data as of the time of your report submission. However, some questions will prompt you to report data for the “most recently completed academic year” (designated as August through July for CAA reports). If you are submitting a report that is due August 1 and your academic year does not end until after the submission date, you should report data based on the most recently completed academic year as it is defined by your program.
EnGauge is a secure web portal that is set to “time out” after approximately 30 minutes if left inactive. This is a standard setting to protect the system. To avoid losing your data, make sure to save frequently. When the session times out, you will need to log on to access the system again. If you saved data prior to that time-out, the entered data will not be lost.
You are able to update your faculty list at any time through a separate web form that may be accessed through your “My Account” page via the ASHA website. Through this feature you may add and remove faculty to be reported in your CAA report.
The Faculty List should represent all faculty currently hired and making contributions to the accredited program. Faculty members who have permanently left the program should be removed from the list. To update this list, you must add or remove faculty as referenced above. Detailed information for each faculty member will then be reported within your CAA report through EnGauge. The CAA encourages programs to use the Faculty Data Worksheets to compile data for each faculty member in the program seeking accreditation status prior to entering this information into EnGauge.
If you are reporting for both audiology and speech-language pathology programs, you will need to complete faculty lists separately for each report. Make sure that the faculty contributions are reported in proportion to their contribution for each professional area’s program.
The CAA defines full-time equivalent (FTE) as the amount of faculty workload that is distributed across all categories (classroom teaching, supervision, advising, administration, etc.) in contribution to the accredited graduate program. The program should provide faculty workload contributions for all faculty members (part-time, full-time, adjunct) who are employed by the institution and are contributing to the accredited or candidate program. This includes faculty who are members of departments other than the department in which the program resides. You should use the institution’s formula when providing the percentage of workload contribution for classroom teaching.
The CAA encourages programs to use the Courses Data Worksheets to compile data for each course offered in the program seeking accreditation status prior to entering this information into EnGauge.
The CAA encourages programs that are submitting an accreditation application to use the Clinical Sites Data Worksheets to compile data for each clinical site used by the program seeking accreditation status prior to entering this information into EnGauge.
Programs must complete the Program Completion Rate Calculator Worksheet [XLS] and upload it in EnGauge with your CAA report.
Programs are required to report results only once for test-takers who took the Praxis exam multiple times in a single examination reporting period. Note that test-takers who may have taken the exam in the first year of the 3-year reporting period and retook the exam in the second year of the 3-year reporting period should be reported in both years.
Programs should report results on all test-takers from the program who take the Praxis exam within the referenced period/test cycle (comparable to an academic year). You can use ETS data from the Institutional Summary Report to identify individuals who took the exam in a particular reporting year/cycle. However, you also should compare ETS data to your own data within the past 3 years. You should not report data for individuals who graduated from the program more than 3 years ago. Programs also should develop a mechanism for tracking, documenting, and reporting on their graduates’ performance on the Praxis examination.
Candidacy applications are not submitted online via EnGauge. New developing programs with no students enrolled must apply using the Application for Candidacy provided by the Accreditation staff after the program has been scheduled for a submission date. Instructions are provided in the Accreditation Handbook and online.