Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms The Impact

This book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam. The adoption of nationalized teach

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Edited by Julie H. Carter and Hilary A. Lochte

Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms

Julie H. Carter  •  Hilary A. Lochte Editors

Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms The Impacts of edTPA on Teaching and Schools

Editors Julie H. Carter D’Youville College Buffalo, New York, USA

Hilary A. Lochte D’Youville College Buffalo, New York, USA

ISBN 978-1-137-55999-9    ISBN 978-1-137-56000-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56000-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016957535 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © Alberto Ruggieri / Getty Images Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Nature America Inc. The registered company address is: 1 New York Plaza, New York, NY 10004, U.S.A.

Contents

1 Introduction   1 Julie H. Carter and Hilary A. Lochte 2 Teacher Blame and Corporate Gain: edTPA and the  Takeover of Teacher Education   7 Julie H. Carter and Hilary A. Lochte 3 New York’s edTPA: The Perfect Solution to a Wrongly Identified Problem  25 Karen DeMoss 4 Reliability and Validity of edTPA  47 James P. Lalley 5 Raising the Stakes: Objectifying Teaching in the edTPA and Danielson Rubrics  79 Christine Clayton 6 “We Do Everything with edTPA” Interrupting and  Disrupting Teacher Education in Troubling Times 107 Brian D. Schultz and Alison G. Dover

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7 Ensuring Quality Teacher Candidates: Does the edTPA Answer the Call? 119 Mary Beth Ressler, Kathleen B. King, and Heidi Nelson 8 The edTPA: High-Stakes Assessment Versus Social Justice Teaching in the Pacific Northwest 141 Jeff Edmundson 9 A Disability Studies in Education Analysis Using Student and Faculty Perspectives of the Special Education edTPA 157 Jessica Bacon and Sheila Blachman 10 How Do You Talk to a Politician About the edTPA? Advocacy Through Inquiry and Social J