The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandated the educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA), a performance-based assessment to evaluate teaching readiness, as a licensure requirement since July 2015. In the previous reports, we find that edTPA had negative impacts on new teachers and their students in Illinois. This report seeks to generalize the findings to four other early edTPA states – Georgia, New York, Washington, and Wisconsin. Washington and New York are the earliest states integrating edTPA into their licensure systems in 2014, whereas Georgia and Wisconsin adopted edTPA in 2015 and 2016.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN