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, ...

The edTPA process in 2014 posed challenges for many teacher candidates in New York and Washington—the first two states to require successful edTPA completion for teacher certification. According to a ...