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Comprehensive Competency Assessment (CCA) Exams

Bachelor students are required to take and pass one Comprehensive Competency

Assessment (CCA) Exam after successfully completing the Required, Core, and Elective

Courses.

The Registrar will inform the Bachelor candidate during the third week of his/her final course that they

will be registered for the CCA Exam in the following term upon successful completion of the current

term course. For more details regarding the CCA Exams please see Course Syllabus.

Master and Doctorate students are required to take and pass two Comprehensive

Competency Assessment (CCA) Exams. The first CCA Exam (CCA1) will cover materials in

the Required Courses. The second CCA Exam (CCA2) will cover materials in the Emphasis or

Elective Courses. Students must successfully pass all Required Courses prior to taking the

CCA1 and all Emphasis or Elective Courses prior to taking the CCA2.

NOTE:

To prepare for this course:

1. The Study Guide was designed by industry experts and educators from the materials

in the textbook and summarizes the course content. The Study Guide chapters

correspond to those chapters in the textbook which are required for the course. This

is the reason we recommend you download your Study Guides for review for your

CCA Exams. There are no other study materials provided for the CCA Exam.

a. CCA1 Exam - It is recommended that you review the Study Guides for the

Required Courses.

b. CCA2 Exam - It is recommended that you review the Study Guides for your

Emphasis Courses.

Please note that Master and Doctorate students may not be able to continue to the

Dissertation phase until they have successfully passed the Exams. No degree will be awarded

without successful completion of the required CCA Exams.

The CCA Exam is online, mandatory for graduation, not counted towards your GPA, and is a

Pass/Fail exam. It consists of two parts:

� Multiple‐choice/True or False questions

o 5 attempts will be allowed during a term. The highest scoring attempt will be

accepted as your final grade.

o Proctored exam – Each attempt of this exam must be proctored. See




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proctoring instructions below.

§ The initial proctoring attempt will incur a $35 fee at the time of

registration. Any additional attempts will incur a $30 fee each and will

have a delayed billing by 1-2 months. These charges will be seen on

your Student Ledger Card in the Student Portal.

DEGREE PROGRAM MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

DOCTORATE

� CCA1 exam will consist of 45 questions and is timed for 2 hours

· CCA2 exam will consist of 25 questions and is timed for 1 hour

· It is a proctored exam

MASTER’S

� CCA1 exam will consist of 35 questions and is timed for 2 hours

· CCA2 exam will consist of 25 questions and is timed for 1 hour

· It is a proctored exam

BACHELOR � CCA1 exam will consist of 45 questions and is timed for 2 hours

� It is a proctored exam

� Essay Questions

The essay portion of the CCA examination focuses upon your ability to synthesize

learning experiences into coherent critical essays demonstrating knowledge regarding

a context and writing prompt. You will be offered five writing prompts. You are to

address three of the five essay prompts. The general guideline is that the average

well-thought out response requires about three to five pages for Bachelor, five to

seven pages for the Master’s, and eight to ten pages for the Doctorate.

o This portion of the exam is not proctored.

o You will have only 5 attempts to successfully pass all three essays.

o Each essay prompt can be used only one time.

o There are no revisions

NOTE:

� APA Format is required. Your work should be well structured with use of section

headings as needed, and easy to follow.

· Work should be original.

· In-text citations should be given to support your work, and to give other authors due

credit. A minimum of three in-text citations are required.




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Important Criteria

� 16% content

� 24% Critical Thinking

� 32% APA format

� 28% Demonstration of related competencies

Proctor Instructions

You will need to go to ProctorU.com (https://go.proctoru.com/) and select a date and time to

take the exam within the term.

If this is your first time taking the exam, you will need to create a free account with ProctorU

by selecting ‘New Users: Create an Account’. However, if you are retaking the exam or

taking the CCA 2, please log into your account with your username and password.

Prior to taking the exam, make sure you have the proper equipment such as a webcam and

microphone for the proctoring services. You can test your equipment by visiting ‘Technical

Requirements’ on the ProctorU website (http://proctoru.com/tech.php and also visiting ‘How

to Get Started’ (http://proctoru.com/getstarted.php).

On the date and time of your exam, please log in to the ProctorU website to take your exam.

ProctorU will input the password to access the exam.

CCA Exam Fees

Your account will be charged the $35 exam fee to cover the cost of the initial proctoring. You

will be allowed to retake the exam 5 times during the term. There is a $30 retake fee for each

attempt.

Billing for the first attempt is at registration. Billings for all other attempts are delayed by one

to two months.

Should you fail to schedule or miss the exam for the term, you will be assigned a failing

grade, and charged a $35 rescheduling fee. This failing grade will stay on your record. We

strongly recommend students to take the exam on time.The course final grade is based on

the total points earned across the four assignments. (the multiple-choice and 3 essay

responses).




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Grading Percentage Table

Assignment Grade Points

Multiple-choice questions 100 Points

Essay One 300 Points

Essay Two 300 Points

Essay Three 300 Points

Total 1000 Points




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Below you will find the each term start and end dates for 2014:

2014 ACADEMIC CALENDAR

TERM 1: Term begins on Monday, January 6, 2014

Term ends on Sunday, February 16, 2014

TERM 2: Term begins on Monday, February 17, 2014

Term ends on Sunday, March 30, 2014

TERM BREAK: March 31 to April 6, 2014

TERM 3: Term begins on Monday, April 7, 2014

Term ends on Sunday, May 18, 2014

TERM 4: Term begins on Monday, May 19, 2014

Term ends on Sunday, June 29, 2014

TERM BREAK: June 30 to July 6, 2014

TERM 5: Term begins on Monday, July 7, 2014.

Term ends on Sunday, August 17, 2014

TERM 6: Term begins on Monday, August 18, 2014

Term ends on Sunday, September 28, 2014

TERM 7: Term begins on Monday, September 29, 2014

Term ends on Sunday, November 9, 2014

TERM 8: Term begins on Monday, November 10, 2014

Term ends on Sunday, December 21, 2014

TERM BREAK: December 22, 2014 to January 4, 2015

Observed Holidays: Monday, January 20, 2014: Dr. Martin Luther King’s Day

Monday, February 17, 2014: Presidents’ Day

Monday, May 26, 2014: Memorial Day

Monday, September 1, 2014: Labor Day

Monday, October 13, 2014: Columbus Day

Tuesday, November 11, 2014: Veteran’s Day

Thursday, November 27, 2014: Thanksgiving Day

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your student adviser at

[email protected] for assistance.

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