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Candidate Assessment

The Candidate Assessment domain evaluates a provider's performance in preparing candidates to pass the pedagogical and content-area assessments required to obtain a Tennessee teaching license.

Performance

Exceeds Expectations

What does this mean?

"Does Not Meet Expectations" means the provider received less than 50% of possible points. "Meets Expectations" means the provider received 50-74.9% of possible points. "Exceeds Expectations" means the provider received 75% or more of possible points.

Why is this important?

Candidate assessments help ensure that new teachers enter the classroom with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful. EPPs play a key role in preparing candidates for these assessments.

Metrics

This domain includes two scored metrics.

Pedagogical Assessment Pass Rate

State Average: 97.7

N-Size: 311

What is this metric?

This metric reports the percentage of cohort members who passed either the Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching (PLT) assessment or the edTPA assessment within two attempts.

What does this mean?

The score of 97.4 earned this EPP 6.7 out of 9 points possible.

 

Content Assessment Pass Rate

State Average: 92.2

N-Size: 981

What is this metric?

This metric reports the percentage of cohort members who passed the content assessments required for their endorsement area(s) within two attempts. This includes both subject-area assessments, which measure cohort members' knowledge of the subject they will be teaching, and literacy assessments, which measure cohort members' knowledge about teaching reading.

What does this mean?

The score of 93.8 earned this EPP 5.3 out of 6 points possible.