Exhibit 1.4
Aggregated Data on Performance of Candidates on
Assessments of a Cohort of Candidates

   Because of the nature of the initial and advanced student body in the professional education programs of Eastern Michigan University, virtually nothing like the traditional definition of a "cohort"--enter together, move through program together, exit together--exists.

   "Artificial" cohorts can be constructed--e.g., all the persons who did student teaching in a given semester, all the persons recommended for licensure in a given year, all the persons completing an administrator preparation program in a given year--but it must be understood that the people in these "cohorts" entered our program at different times, moved through the program at different rates, and, indeed, because of program changes along the way, may have had appreciably different preparation.

   Data from some of the artificial "cohorts" may be seen in other exhibits.  For example, Exhibit 1.7 provides certain data on the "cohorts" of persons who completed our programming in 2000-2001 and in 2001-2002.   Exhibit 2.13 gives data for the "cohort" of persons who took the state certification test during various quarters. 

   We do not yet have data systems that will tell us "what happened to all the people admitted to program X in 1998."

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