CAEP Accreditation

Education

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Wilmington College’s educator preparation programs are accredited by CAEP.

Wilmington’s educator preparation programs are accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). This accreditation recognizes that our education programs have met national professional standards for the preparation of teachers. In CAEP’s performance based accreditation system, institutions must provide evidence of competent teacher candidate performance. Teacher candidates must know the subject matter they plan to teach and how to teach effectively so that all students learn. All education programs at Wilmington are CAEP-accredited until Fall 2025:

Bachelor of Arts in Education

• Adolescent/Young Adult Integrated English/Language Arts
• Adolescent/Young Adult Integrated Mathematics
• Adolescent/Young Adult Integrated Social Studies
• Adolescent/Young Adult Life Science
• Middle Childhood Education
• K-12 Intervention Specialist
• Primary Education
• Primary Education Intervention Specialist

Bachelor of Science in Education

• Career/Technical Education – Agriscience Education

For more information on Wilmington’s accreditation status, download our Wilmington CAEP Accreditation Summary 2025 (PDF).

Accreditation Measures

Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) has four annual report measures which are used to provide information to the public on both program outcome and impact.

Annual Reporting Measures 2021-22

Measure 1: Impact on P-12 Learning and Development and Indicators of Teaching Effectiveness

(CAEP Component R4.1)

Ohio’s Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS) uses scores from standardized achievement tests to determine student academic growth. The information from the value-added data assists teachers linked to the students to better understand the impact of their instructional practices. The Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) annually reports the value-added data of Ohio teachers to the institution which prepared them on the Metrics Reporting System.

This data comes from the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES) which includes teacher effectiveness ratings as determined by their administrators after conducting observations of the teachers. The Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) annually reports the OTES data of Ohio teachers to the institution which prepared them on the Metrics Reporting System.

Measure 2: Satisfaction of Employers

(CAEP Component R4.2, R5.3)

The ODHE conducts an annual statewide survey of employers of Ohio educators on the quality of the preparation program through which the teachers were prepared. The data is reported on the Metrics Reporting System.

Measure 3: ABILITY OF COMPLETERS TO MEET LICENSING REQUIREMENTS

(CAEP Component R3.3)

This data is comprised of how many of our program completers took and passed the Ohio Assessment for Educators (OAE) content and professional knowledge licensure tests for their programs. The data is taken from the OAE scores reported to Wilmington College by Pearson.

Measure 4: ABILITY OF COMPLETERS TO BE HIRED IN EDUCATION POSITIONS FOR WHICH THEY HAVE PREPARED

This data indicates the licensure and employment rates for program completers. It comes from the Ohio Department of Education data.