{"id":15989,"date":"2020-02-14T09:37:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=15989"},"modified":"2020-02-27T06:45:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T12:45:38","slug":"edtpa-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/edtpa-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"edTPA studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will keep updating this post as it seems that more and more edTPA news comes in – on 2\/26\/2020 – The Pearson-scored test<\/a> is meant to assess whether prospective educators have the skills to teach, but critics question the time and cost involved, its reliability and Pearson’s “corporate profits.”<\/p>\n

The new study by Drew Gitomer from Rutgers (a very solid researcher) and others entitles \u201cAssessing the Assessment: Evidence of the Reliability and Validity in the edTPA<\/a>\u201d is pretty clear.\u00a0 Their conclusion:<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>We argue that, in light of the evidence available, the current proposed and actual uses of edTPA in evaluating PSTs and programs are not sufficiently supported on technical and empircal groups. We recommend that serious consideration be given to a moratorium on using edTPA scores for consequential decisions at the individual level, pending provision of appropriate evidence of the reliability, precision and validity of the scores produced by the assessments and given the stakes involved, an independent technical review of this evidence by an expert panel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A podcast<\/a>\u00a0that covers the\u00a0recent AERA study<\/a>\u00a0on the edTPA problems actually got me to listen to the whole thing.\u00a0 This is pretty amazing stuff and you should listen to the researchers talk about the MAJOR issues with the edTPA.<\/p>\n