USPAP Results

[Bob Ipock]

I taught the 2004 15 Hour USPAP Class this weekend (along with a far superior teacher).


59 students in the class (this is crazy...too many, never again)

5 of the 59 were practicing appraisers, the other 54 were final class, prelicense students.

Test is not easy, material is not easy but.........81% passed.


Would be very interested in statistics from other classes.

 

[Kate]

The class before mine was +-40% pass.

Then the school hired a different teacher. Actually flew him in. Awesome older man. He had done it all in his career. I heard it was in the high 90% pass for that class.

 

[George Hatch]

Three elements:

The material has to be well organized;

The instructor has to effectively deliver the material; and,

The student/participants have to effectively receive the material.


If you miss one of those elements there are going to be problems.

I would say that if a class that includes newbiew has an 80+% pass rate it demonstrates the material works and the instructors can deliver it. I believe that requiring the students to pass the test probably motivates a certain percentage of them to take the course more seriously than they would have when there was no test.

By the way, I taught a USPAP course with 50+ students exactly once (It was at a convention in Las Vegas). Hated it. I'm just not capable of building a rapport with that big a group or to adequately address their questions. I hate having to stand at a podium and use a microphone. Different strokes, I guess. I always thought that between 20-25 was the optimum number, and I always made them sit close enough to me to hear and see.

 

[C. Kevin Bokoske MAI]

I recently completed teaching the National 15-Hour USPAP simultaneously to 15 students at a local community college and had an 80% pass rate, and to 11 students at a state university adult ed and had 100% pass rate. (The classes were 3 hours a week for 5 weeks.) The results were what I had expected, based on class participation in each venue during the 5 weeks of instruction.

C. Kevin Bokoske, MAI
Memphis

 

[Mike Garrett RAA]

I do not teach USPAP anymore because I didn't pass the USPAP Instructor exam. We have another instructor who does the 15 hour USPAP portion of the 75 hour pre-license course. His passing rate is right at 80% also.

Prior to federal certification I did facilitate the USPAP portion of the course and most of my students passed our exam and the state test for Registered Appraiser. Most of those classes had 25 to 30 students.

I did do the USPAP update prior to instructor licensing and once had 120 in the class. That was very interesting.