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Teacher Licensing, Teacher Supply, and Student Achievement: Nationwide Implementation of edTPA

Bobby W. Chung,
Jian Zou

The debate on the stringency of licensure exams for prospective public school teachers is on-going, including the recent controversial roll-out of the educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA). We leverage the quasi-experimental setting of different adoption timing by states and analyze multiple data sources containing a national sample of prospective teachers and students of new teachers in the US. With extensive controls of concurrent policies, we  find that the edTPA reduced prospective teachers in undergraduate programs, less-selective and minority-concentrated universities. Contrary to the policy intention, we do not  find evidence that edTPA increased student test scores.

Keywords
teacher licensing, edTPA
Education level
K-12 Education
Topics
Teacher and Leader Development
Tags
Teacher hiring and retention
Download 05/2023
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/ppz4-gv19
EdWorkingPaper suggested citation:
Chung, Bobby W., and Jian Zou. (). Teacher Licensing, Teacher Supply, and Student Achievement: Nationwide Implementation of edTPA. (EdWorkingPaper: -440). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/ppz4-gv19

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