Program Overview
2,258 evaluations across 222 agencies · 12 academic years · 2014-2015 through 2025-2026
3.83
Mean Placement Quality Score
64
Agencies flagged for review
68
Agencies on declining trend
3.41
2025-2026 program-wide PQS
Concern clustering - PQS vs recommendation rate
Red triangles: flagged agencies (64). Gray dots: all other agencies. Shaded zone: both signals below
threshold.
Program-wide Placement Quality Score - 12 years
Weighted mean PQS by academic year. Dotted line: 3.5 concern threshold.
Nearly 3 in 10 agencies met the threshold for review
An agency is flagged when two or more concern signals occur simultaneously.
Flagged Agencies
64 agencies with two or more simultaneous concern signals · sorted lowest PQS first · use this as a
starting point for review, not a final verdict
Ten lowest-scoring flagged agencies
Sorted by Placement Quality Score. Dotted line: 3.5 concern threshold.
All flagged agencies
Click any row to open the agency profile.
| Agency | PQS | Rec % | Trend | Flag |
|---|
Trend Monitoring
Year-by-year Placement Quality Score trends · 68 agencies showing decline before reaching the full flag
threshold
68
Agencies on declining trend
0.30
Point decline threshold
3.5
Concern threshold (PQS)
Trend spotlight - agencies with the weakest recent trajectories
Gray lines: all agencies with sufficient multi-year data. Highlighted lines: flagged agencies with the
most significant recent decline.
Program-wide PQS - first time below 3.5 in 12 years
The 2025-2026 drop to 3.41 was not visible in any existing review process before this pipeline ran.
Language Patterns
What students describe in most-helpful and least-helpful open-ended responses · themes applied across
2,258 evaluations
Stronger and weaker placements are described in opposite language
Mean % of responses tagged with each theme. Teal dots: most-helpful comments. Maroon dots: least-helpful
comments.
Most-helpful responses
What students describe at stronger agencies
Least-helpful responses
What students describe at weaker agencies
Agency Profile
Select an agency below to view its full profile · scores, concern signals, theme breakdown, trend, and
representative student language
Benchmark Alignment
Correlation between program-level competency scores and agency-level Placement Quality Scores across 217
agencies
−0.009
Pearson r (217 agencies)
0.89
p-value (not significant)
2
Score-narrative mismatches
Passing competency benchmarks does not predict a strong placement experience
Gray dots: all agencies. Maroon diamonds: score-narrative mismatches - high competency, weak student
narrative. Dotted line: 3.5 PQS threshold.
Catholic Charities
91.0
Competency score
→
2.90
Placement Quality Score
Same agency. Same students. All benchmarks met.
Peachtree Pediatric Therapy Center
88.4
Competency score
→
3.20
Placement Quality Score
Same agency. Same students. All benchmarks met.