What Students Should Know
What is the passing score for Audiology or Speech-Language
Pathology?
- The passing score for ASHA certification is 600 for both
Audiology and Speech-Language
Pathology.
- Each state determines its passing score for professional
licensure and teacher certification. Most states use the same score
of 600 as required for ASHA certification. However, in some states
the Praxis examination score for licensure or teacher certification
may be higher or lower than the ASHA passing score.
- ETS recommends that academic programs not use the Praxis
exams as a student summative exam for graduation clearance.
How is the exam scored?
- Only questions answered correctly count toward the exam
score. It is better to guess than leave an answer blank.
- The raw points awarded are the number of correct answers. Your
scaled score is computed from your total number of raw points in a
way that adjusts for the difficulty of the questions.
- See also Understanding
Your Praxis Scores [PDF].
What if I don't pass on the first try?
Typically, 80% of test-takers pass the exam on their first
attempt. The Council For Clinical Certification (CFCC) has ruled that,
effective January 1, 2005, results of the Praxis Examinations in
Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology submitted for initial
certification in either speech-language
pathology or audiology must have
been obtained no more than five (5) years prior to the submission of the
certification application. Scores older than 5 years will not be
accepted for certification.
Audiology and speech-language
pathology test-takers who have not
earned a passing score have two-years to retake and pass the Praxis
examination. If the examination is not passed successfully within a
two-year period, the applicant's certification file will be closed. If
the examination is passed at a later date, the individual will have to
reapply for certification under the standards in effect at the time of
reapplication.
How soon will I receive my score?
If you register for the exam online, you may
access your score report online as soon as scores are available from
ETS. Otherwise, your official score report will arrive in the mail four
weeks after your test date. Score reports may be accessed sooner for a
fee by calling ETS three weeks after your test date.
If you do not receive your score report within four weeks after your
test, notify ETS. ETS utilizes a bar code document tracking system to
ensure accountability and tracking of your exam book and answer document
so that the scoring process is complete and accurate.
Can I cancel my score?
The ETS online Registration Bulletin details the conditions under
which the scores may be cancelled by you or ETS.
What Praxis Score Reports are sent to exam candidates?
- Examinee Score Report
Each exam candidate receives a score report. Your score report
contains:
- your name
- score(s)
- pass/no pass score information for recipients you designate
on your registration
- background information
- educational information
- detailed content category performance (for current scores)
- A duplicate Examinee Score Report may be
purchased from ETS up to 10 years following a test administration
date.
What Faculty Should Know
What Praxis Score Reports are sent to academic programs?
- Designated Institution Score Report
An Audiology and/or Speech-Language
Pathology academic program will
receive an individual candidate's score report mailed directly to
the CSD program following a test administration if the student
selected the academic program as a score recipient using the
Audiology/Speech Language Pathology Attending
Institution/Recipient Codes [PDF] and entered the Recipient
(R-Code) on the Praxis registration form. The Designated Institution
Report includes the candidate's name, score(s), pass/no pass score
information, background information, and educational information.
- Annual Institutional Summary Report
An Audiology and/or Speech-Language
Pathology academic program will
receive an annual aggregated report of exam scores mailed directly
to the CSD program in November of each year (effective 2005). The
annual report contains the highest score for that reporting period
plus the test category scores from all Audiology and Speech-Language
Pathology candidates who identified their attending institution
using the Audiology/Speech Language
Pathology Attending
Institution/Recipient Codes [PDF] and entered the Attending
Institution (A-Code) on the Praxis registration form. The Annual
Institutional Summary Report will be generated provided that an
institution was identified by at least five (5) candidates in the
given test administration year (September through August) in
connection with one or more of the Examinations.
- Annual Institution Delete Roster
In August of each year, an academic program will receive an
Annual Institution Delete Roster. This report is a preliminary
roster of all exam candidates who have selected your academic
program as their Attending Institution via the A-Code and will
determine the scores that will be included in the Annual Institution
Summary Report. Academic programs are expected to review this
report, strike (delete) any names of candidates who the program
believes should not be represented in the Annual Institution Summary
Report, and return the Delete Roster to ETS. Academic programs may
not add exam candidate names to the roster.
-
Institutional Summary Report [PDF]
Sample Online
A sample of information contained in the Institutional Summary
Report (ISR) is now available online for IHEs.
What formats are available for academic programs to receive
Score Reports?
-
ETS Internet Delivery of Praxis Scores
The ETS Internet Delivery of Scores service is an
electronic transmission method for delivering score reports to
Schools and universities via the Web. For further information about
this service, visit the
ETS Web site or contact the ETS Internet Delivery of Scores
service at codecontrol@ets.org
or by phone at 1-609-771-7091.
- CD Rom
Contains a data file with the same straight-text file and
layout as ScoreLink.
- Individual paper report
Contains test scores from the current administration, the highest
score for each test taken by the examinee in the past 10 years, and
pass/not pass status based on the recipient's state.
- Pressure sensitive labels
Contains only the highest earned score and a letter "P" or "N"
(indicating passed/not passed status) for each test reported based
on the recipient's state; current scores are not shown unless they
are the highest scores the examinee has earned.
Other Resources
Both of these reports include descriptive statistics of Praxis exam
scores from 1996-1997 through 2006-2007.
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