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COURT REPORTING SCHOOLS and the QUESTIONS to ASK BEFORE ENROLLING
The general courses online court reporting school students,as well as traditional school students must learn in court reporting schools are:
Theory
Speed building to 225 words per minute
English
Spelling
Grammar
Court reporting vocabulary
Legal terminology
Medical terminology
Court reporting procedures and technology
Court reporting transcript production
Court reporting ethics,
Closed captioning and CART terminology CAT (Computer Aided Transcription) real-time court reporting software.
Externship
Job Placement
These are the court reporting and closed captioning academics commonly found on state and national court reporting certification examinations.
Many online court reporting schools and traditional court reporting schools needlessly extend a student's training by making court reporting and closed captioning a degree program, thereby extending the training for years. Courses such as communications, speech, foundation of law, human relations, culture and society, history and math, are never found on any state or national certification examination and only serve to extend the court reporting students time in school, and increase overall cost.
Speedbuilding classes should be broken up into 20 word per minute increments for each instructor. Many schools put students in 2, 3, or even 4 speed levels to save money on instructors. As much as 75% per cent of the class may be useless to the student. These speedbuilding classes should have credentialed court reporters dictating,so your court reporting questions can be answered immediately.
Obtaining an Associate's Degree from a community college or an Occupational Associate's Degree from a trade school (which will not transfer to a real college or university) does NOT make you more employable or allow you to earn more income. It also does not guarantee a quality court reporting school, as over one half of accredited court reporting schools have closed for various reasons since 1999.
Only the credentials you receive from passing your state, or the National Court Reporters Association certification examination are necessary for you to work as a court reporter in states that require you to pass a licensure exam. ASSOCIATES DEGREES ARE NOT A REQUIREMENT.
The RPR (Registered Professional Reporter Exam) given by the NCRA is the national standard of proficiency in the United States and does not require any degree.
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THE QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO ASK BEFORE YOU BEGIN COURT REPORTING SCHOOL
1. How many court reporting students graduate in 24 months?
How many of your instructors are RPRs or CMRs? You want to know you are being taught by people who have been successful in the court reporting profession. Many state certifications, or CSRs are voluntary, whereas the national RPR and CMR are accomplished by testing.
Every court reporting class, including speed building should be taught by a credentialed court reporter.
Is the court reporting school representative you speak with prior to enrolling more knowledgeable about financial aid than the career of court reporting? If a schools first priority is selling financial aid student loans, ask to speak to a credentialed court reporter who can tell you about the training program.
2. What per cent of your court reporting school students graduate, and what is the average period of time to graduate? What is the average cost for tuition and supplies your graduates paid during their time in school? Tuition, books, study materials. lab fees, and the stenomachine, may exceed $50,000.
Though the stated completion time may be 24 months, the average time for completion may be much longer, which means substantially more tuition and higher attrition rates.
3. If I don't complete my court reporting training in 24 months will I continue to be charged for however long I am in training? Ask about the average time for graduation in court reporting. 33 to 40 months is more realistic in most online degree court reporting programs.
4. What is the annual attrition rate in the court reporting school? Most court reporting schools have a 100% placement rate in court reporting, but if the court reporting school only graduates 2 or 3 students per year, placement rate is a mis-leading number. The court reporting school may also be placing non completers in court reporting teaching positions, or transcribing fields, un-related to court reporting, but allowing the court reporting schools to show another graduate in their court reportomg school.
5. Are all of the court reporting school's academics directed toward court reporting, broadcast (closed) captioning, and CART providing certification, or do I have to take academics that lead to an Occupational Associate's Degree and only extend my time in court reporting school ? The academics found on court reporting certification examinations are listed in bold print in the left-hand column.
6. Does the court reporting school employ credentialed court reporters with professional court reportingexperience as court reporting school instructors? Again, student dropouts usually can only get you to the point in court reporting school where they dropped out.
7. Are the academics, including theory, taught by credentialed court reporters? Does the court reporting school employ student dropouts as instructors? If the drop out could not complete court reporting school , why would they be able to help another court reporting school student complete his or her court reporting school?
8. Do you have a separate court reporting dictation class for each speed level in 20 word per minute increments? (Writing at speed levels lower than your own is a waste of practice time and money.)
9. What court reporting theory do you teach?
10. Is the steno machine included in the cost of the court reporting school tuition?
11. Do I begin learning to write on the steno machine from the first day I begin court reporting school ? This is an absolute must in any quality court reporting school.
12. Have there been any complaints against the court reporting school in the last two years? If so, what were they about and what was the resolution?
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