Constellations of edTPA Data Use: Strategies for Educator Preparation Programs

Edtpa

Developed by teacher educators and supported by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the edTPA has been rapidly adopted by EPP’s nationwide (Hutt, Gottlieb, & Cohen, 2018). edTPA is a teacher performance assessment portfolio with three tasks; planning, instruction, and assessment (SCALE, 2017a). In preparing the portfolio, teacher candidates--typically in their summative student teaching experience--design lesson plans, develop assessments, analyze student work, and reflect upon teaching practice in a series of 3-5 coordinated lessons. Each subject-specific portfolio is assessed by scorers trained by the operational partner, Pearson, yielding scores on 15 rubrics,¹ the three tasks, and an overall score edTPA score.