School Psychology Home: SPSY 2007 Disclosure Tables

Disclosure of Program Information and Education-Training Outcomes for Potential Students, Current Students and Other Interested Parties to Allow for Informed Decision-Making about the OSU School Psychology Program

OSU SPSY PhD Program Costs and Awards

Note. For students entering the program during the 2007-08 academic year, the full-time student tuition costs were $16,620.00 for non-resident students and $4,440.00 for Oklahoma residents (12-12-6;or 30 credit hours across fall, spring and summer semesters). No additional fees were assessed beyond tuition costs..  a: The program accepts only 6-8 full-time students per year. b: Historically since the program’s initial accreditation by the American Psychological Association, 100% of Ph.D. students have been supported with at least .25 fte assistantship awards.  Graduate assistants have the non-resident portion of tuition waived for fall, spring and summer semesters.  c: McNair Scholars all receive at least a .25 fte assistantship award, waiver of non-resident portion of tuition and a tuition stipend for 9 hours of resident tuition expense in Fall and Spring semesters and 3 hours of resident tuition expense in the Summer semester as indicated in the above table. d: The program has two $5,000.00 Super GA awards per year, which is added to the base .25fte assistantship salary.

Time to Completion

Since 2000, 18 students have graduated from the School Psychology program at Oklahoma State University. For all of the graduates during this time period, the mean number of years to complete the program was 5.20 years and the median number of years to complete the program was 5.00 years. For those graduates who entered the program at the bachelor level (n = 6), the mean number of years to complete the program was 6.00 years and the median number of years to complete the program was 5.00 years. For those graduates who began with advanced standing (n = 12), the mean number of years to complete the program was 4.83 years and the median number of years to complete the program was 5.0 years. In the period from 2000 to 2007 the program admission demographic has shifted.  A majority of the students were admitted at the bachelor level.  (n = 28, 67%).  Fourteen (33%) were admitted at the masters or specialist level during that time frame.

Attrition

Internships

In the past 7 years 27 doctoral candidates from the School Psychology program at Oklahoma State University have completed the required pre-doctoral internship as their capstone experience and in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. The table below  provides a summary of the program data

Note. All OSU school psychology doctoral candidates have participated in the APPIC match to acquire internship placements since 1999. OSU students have been awarded internships at the following sites: 2007 - Devereux Foundation- Mapleton (Villanova, PA), Fort Worth ISD (Fort Worth, TX), Nebraska Internship Consortium- Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation (Omaha, NE), Dallas ISD (Dallas, Texas), Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (Houston, Texas), LAS-PIC New Orleans Recovery Schools (NO, LA) 2006 - Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (Houston, Texas) 2005 - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – Kennedy-Krieger Institute (Baltimore, MD) 2004 - Dallas ISD (Dallas, Texas), Lewisville ISD (Lewisville, TX), Arkansas Children’s Hospital Consortium - Methodist Behavioral Health (Little Rock, AR), Nebraska Internship Consortium - Father Flanagan’s Girls and Boys Town (Omaha, NE),  Nebraska Internship Consortium - Omaha Public Schools, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (Houston, TX) 2003 - Sarah Reed Children’s Hospital (Erie, PA), Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (Houston, TX), Fort Worth ISD (Fort Worth, TX), Oklahoma Health Consortium/Oklahoma City Public Schools (Oklahoma City, OK) 2002 - Lewisville ISD (Lewisville, TX) 2001 - Lewisville ISD (Lewisville, TX), Kansas Psychology Training Consortium: Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center (Lawrence, KS), Nebraska Internship Consortium- Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation (Omaha, NE), Jenks Public Schools (Jenks, OK).

Licensure Data: 2007

The Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP)

The Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) is a required component for licensure as a Health Service Psychologist in Oklahoma and most other states. However, the EPPP is only one part of the evaluation procedure used by state and provincial boards. To determine candidates’ competence to practice the profession of psychology, the boards usually supplement the EPPP with other requirements and/or assessment procedures. Oklahoma requires that applicants for licensure are graduates of an APA-accredited program, have completed a year of supervised post-doctoral experience, obtained a passing score on the EPPP, obtained a passing score on the state Jurisprudence examination, and received a passing score on an oral examination administered by a panel of examiners appointed by the Board of Examiners of Psychologists.  OSU school psychology students  take the EPPP after graduation from the program.

The EPPP, developed by ASPPB, is provided to state and provincial boards of psychology to assist them in their evaluation of the qualifications of applicants for licensure and certification. This standardized examination is administered continuously in computerized delivery format through a network of computer testing centers with the support of state and provincial boards acting collectively through ASPPB. The EPPP is intended to evaluate the knowledge that should have been acquired by any candidate who is seeking licensure to practice psychology. Most candidates taking the EPPP have obtained a doctoral degree in psychology, a year of supervised experience, and appropriate postdoctoral experience. Such candidates are expected to have acquired a broad basic knowledge of psychology, regardless of individual specialties. This knowledge, and the candidate’s ability to apply it, is assessed through the candidate’s responses to objective, multiple-choice questions representative of the field at large.

CONTENT OUTLINE OF THE EPPP (administered from 1997 on)

At the completion of an extensive Practice Analysis study, new test specifications were developed for the EPPP. These new specifications were implemented for the first time with the development and administration of the April, 1997 EPPP. Eight, rather than five, content domains were identified as being related to current practice, in the proportions listed below with descriptions of the domains.

EPPP Test Structure

School Psychology Home

Last Updated Monday, October 1, 2007 12:59 PM