The edTPA is a performance-based, subject-specific assessment and support system used by more than 600 teacher preparation programs in some 40 states to emphasize, measure and support the skills and ...

Teacher-candidates who passed a performance-based licensing test on their first try tended to boost their students’ reading test scores more in their first year of teaching than those who didn’t, ...

A new study has a strong indictment of the performance-based licensing test edTPA: The test results are not always reliable or precise, and in fact, can be “misleading.” And the researchers argue that ...