Unstandardized Responses to a “Standardized” Test
The edTPA as Gatekeeper and Curriculum Change Agent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7862234 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Ledwell (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, corresponding author), Celia Oyler (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 120-134 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Teacher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4871 • E-ISSN: 1552-7816 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022487115624739 |
| OpenAlex | W2268388465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 16 |
We examine edTPA (a teacher performance assessment) implementation at one private university during the first year that our state required this exam for initial teaching certification. Using data from semi-structured interviews with 19 teacher educators from 12 programs as well as public information on edTPA pass rates, we explore whether the edTPA served its intended roles as a gatekeeper to the teaching profession and a catalyst for curriculum change. Although the edTPA did not serve as gatekeeper in our context, we did find a wide variety of consequential program-level gatekeeping practices. To explore the test’s function as a curriculum improvement lever, we created weighted change scores to represent the range of edTPA-related curricular changes across 12 programs. We found a wide range of curricular responses to the edTPA, from marginalization of the assessment to deep edTPA integration in program coursework. Finally, we explore teacher educators’ analyses of the edTPA as an instructional tool
Certification · Context (archaeology) · Coursework · Curriculum · Gatekeeping · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Standardized test · Student teacher · Student teaching · Teacher education · Test (biology) · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Educational Systems and Policies · Environmental Engineering and Cultural Studies · Psychology · Teacher Education and Assessments
Examining Performance Assessment
What Does It Mean to Be Student Centered? An Institutional Case Study of edTPA Implementation
What happens after edTPA
High-stakes assessment in elementary education teacher preparation
Teacher effectiveness in Asian higher education contexts
Teacher education policy to improve teacher quality
A Critical Examination of Preservice Music Teachers’ Writing on the edTPA Portfolio
The edTPA as a Barrier to Preparing Antiracist Teachers in California
How Can Preservice Teaching Programs Help New Teachers Feel Prepared to Address Absenteeism
The Struggle to Professionalize Teaching
Who is Watching? What Do They Want? A Foucauldian Analysis of Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with the edTPA
Organizing Possible Futures
Let’s Stop Asking Whether Teachers Are Professionals
Examining the relationship between the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment and preservice teachers' pedagogical content knowledge
Framing teacher quality in the Australian media
Teacher Candidate Tensions with the edTPA
It’s Heart Work
Policy actors or objects of policy? Teacher candidates' interpretations of ‘teacher quality’ policy initiatives in Australia
Showing professionalism
Enriching Their Potential
Winter is Coming
Your Compliance Will Not Protect You
Against the Script With edTPA
Impact of content‐specific seminars on candidate edTPA preparation and performance
Interrogating the Intersections Between General and Special Education in the History of Teacher Education Reform
Examining Diverse Perspectives of edTPA Policy Implementation Across States
Cascading, Colliding, and Mediating
Collaborating to Address the Challenge of Academic Language
Investigating the Impact of edTPA Professional Development on Classroom Practice and Student Teaching Experience
Sense Making and Professional Identity in the Implementation of edTPA
A Framework for Improvement
Does Placement Predict Performance? Associations Between Student Teaching Environments and Candidates' Performance Assessment Scores
Measuring Up
Measuring Up
Assessment with an “End in View”
Creating “Cultures of Evidence” in Teacher Education
"Personal, Professional and Contextual Circumstances of Student Teachers Who "Fail
Examining the Internal Structure Evidence for the Performance Assessment for California Teachers
Evidence in Teacher Education
Summative Evaluation of Student Teachers
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |