Students must register and pay for two terms of at least nine hours of residency after their qualifying examination. After that, the DGS will automatically register the student for EDP 769 for zero credit. If the student has a loan, he/she must tell the DGS to register him/her for EDP 749 after he/she has paid for two terms of residency. If the student fails to do this, he/she may have to begin repaying the loan. By having the DGS register the student for EDP 749, the student may have up to six terms before beginning to repay the loan.

The Graduate School requires that students complete the qualifying exam during the first six weeks of a semester if students want that semester to count as one of their post-qualifying residency terms. In such cases, the student must register for at least nine hours of credit, at least six hours of which must be EDP 769. They may register for additional hours beyond the required six hours of EDP 769 for a course that is not part of their program of study or internship. However, they must register and pay for at least nine hours of credits. If students do not take the qualifying examination within the first six weeks of the semester, they may not register for EDP 769 for that semester. They will need to register for something else in order to be considered actively enrolled but it could be as little as one hour.

A request to sit for the qualifying examination must be in the Graduate School two weeks before the date of the examination. This form is available from 245 Dickey Hall and must be typed to go the Graduate School. A copy will be placed in the student’s permanent file.

Admission to the school psychology portion of the qualifying examination is contingent on the following criteria:

The student must have taken and passed the Department’s Preliminary Requirement on Research Methodology . The student must have taken and passed the program’s Preliminary Examination in School Psychology. The student must submit a portfolio meeting the guidelines described in Appendix I that has been rated as “acceptable” or better by the faculty. The student must have taken the Praxis examination in school psychology and received a score sufficient to meet eligibility for Nationally Certified School Psychologist status. The student has met all requirements of the U.K. Graduate School and satisfactorily completed all required coursework (except for internship and dissertation credits) contained in their approved plan of study.

Internship

A pre-doctoral internship equivalent in length to full-time work for either one school- or one calendar-year, totaling at least 1500 hours, is required after the completion of all coursework and passage of the Qualifying Exam. Internships acceptable for meeting this requirement require doctoral level licensed supervision. The field supervisor should be responsible for no more than two interns at any given time. The internship must be completed in no longer than a 24-month period. Pre-doctoral internships shall be either: (a) a full-year, school-based internship; (b) a full-year internship in a consortium arrangement in which at least half is in a school setting; (c) a half-time internship in a school setting for one year, consecutively followed by a full-time internship in a non-school setting – in this case, the student’s internship requirements will be considered complete at the conclusion of the first half of the second internship year; or (d) a half-time internship in a school setting with certified (but not licensed) supervision for one year, consecutively followed by a full-time internship in a non-school setting. The intent of these various options is to insure that students meet both certification and licensure requirements.