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INFORMATION REPORTING TECHNOLOGY

Information Contacts:
Julie Hardgrove, BSEd, RPR, CRI
 Associate Professor
330-966-5453
Ext. 4358

Rene Page, MAEd, B.S.
Instructor
330-966-5453
Ext. 4876

Department Chair:
Cindy Close, MSEd, CRI
330-494-6170
Ext. 4353
Room #: B215

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Information Reporting Technology
Judicial Reporting Option
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Suggested Course Sequence
  • Program Advising Sheet
  • Judicial Reporting Option Blocksheet
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Reporting has joined the ranks of the information technologies professions because computers are an integral part of information reporting. Information reporters are using their knowledge and skill to serve as information managers in complicated trials. Freelance reporters now have the ability to capture their deposition in digital format.

Stark State now offers the Information Reporting Technology program entirely through distance learning. It affords students the opportunity to complete a college education via distance education from home and at their convenience and it affords students the opportunity to learn with flexibility of time and place while maintaining

 

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access to faculty and other College services. E-Learning is a unique alternative to traditional
on-campus courses.
Virtually anyone who has access to a computer will be able to take the program online, but the student will be required to have specific hardware/software equipment before starting the Information Reporting Technology program through distance learning.

The goal is that graduates will demonstrate the use of good grammar, punctuation and editing skills for transcription preparation and production; conduct research and realtime writing dictionary maintenance for judicial reporting; communicate clearly and concisely; utilize all information reporting technology; exemplify a high standard of ethics as an information reporting professional and demonstrate employability skills and characteristics as an information reporting professional.

Graduation requirements for judicial reporting option:
Specific graduation requirements must be passed for the judicial option: transcribe a minimum of three 5-minute, 2-voice testimony tests with a minimum of 95% accuracy dictated at a minimum speed of 225 wpm; transcribe three 5-minute jury charge tests with a minimum of 95% accuracy dictated at a minimum of 200 wpm; and transcribe three 5-minute literary tests with a minimum of 95% accuracy dictated at a minimum of 180 wpm; and transcribe a simulated state certification test, state qualifying exam, or RPR skills test within the allotted test transcription guidelines.
 
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