Over 30 states have adopted the edTPA as a performance assessment for pre-service
teachers. While many have adopted the edTPA as a program requirement, few require the …

In less than a decade, Pearson's distribution of the Teacher Performance Assessment
(edTPA) has expanded to hundreds of teacher education preparation programs in the …

The objective of this article is to use a theoretical framework to reconceptualize the process
and purpose of lesson planning as a way to liberate teachers from systems that prevent …

This article examines teacher candidates' perceptions of two performance-based evaluation
tools during the student teaching semester (edTPA, Danielson Framework). In particular, I …

Neoliberalism permeates US teacher education programs and governmental policy,
consequently increasing market pressure in teacher education and stunting the …

Teacher preparation and preservice evaluation practices in the US have seen increasing
influence from social efficiency and productivity logics. While analyses of the impacts of such …

The first edition of Acts of Resistance: Subversive Teaching in the English Language Arts
(ELA) Classroom won the 2021 Society of Professors of Education's Outstanding Book …

Issues of the multi-faceted, complex problem of teacher attrition in the US have long been
studied by researchers working to stem the tide of teachers leaving the field: dimensions of …

As nationwide calls for educational rigor and accountability continue across the US, many
states have made the edTPA®, a teacher performance assessment, a requirement for …

Over the past few decades, teaching performance assessments (TPAs) have proliferated in
credentialing and evaluating teachers. In contrast to traditional, one-off measures of teacher …