Institutional/Multimedia
Title: KSDE/NCATE Accreditation Information Video
Summary:In lieu of an upcoming visit by the Kansas State University College of Education’s accrediting body, NCATE, the college administration prepared a video to inform students of how to help the college “look good” for the examiners.
Topic: Accrediting all schools of education
Category: Institutional, Business/Multimedia
What is it: A video for Kansas State University students
Publication Information: Kansas State University, College of Education
Author: None listed
Location: http://coe.ksu.edu/about/video/accredvideo.htm
Accessed: Mar. 15, 2009
Support:
- National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) widely-used accrediting agency
- Kansas State Department of Education
Audience and Agenda:The audience for this video is the education students at Kansas State University. The intent of the video is to create a good image for NCATE when they come to exam.
Usefulness:The juvenile video created to entice KSU students to become informed on talking points for NCATE’s visit shows how futile the standards and evaluations given by NCATE and other accrediting agencies are. The video literally walks through the mission statement of the college and asks students to mention to examiners how the actively the mission statement is implemented at their college. The scripted professor and students go on to explain, with as much enthusiasm that they can muster, each standard that the school is meant to have mastered. They stress how important it is to perform well during the visit. The creation such a video to put on a charade for the accreditation examiners illustrates how ineffective the system of measurement is if the content that NCATE is evaluating has been falsely produced.
Works Cited:
- The “About” page for the College of Education at Kansas State University: http://coe.ksu.edu/about/index.htm
