TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethical, Legal, and Pedagogical Issues in edTPA
AU - Gilbert, Kristen A
AU - Kuo, Nai Cheng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Institute for Critical Education Studies.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The purpose of this article is to address ethical, legal, and pedagogical issues in the use of edTPA, a mandatory and consequential assessment required for teacher candidates in the United States (and elsewhere for consideration). We discuss issues such as the cost of edTPA, implicit bias in scoring teacher candidates, marginalization in K-12 settings, property rights, privacy, and disconnections between the real classroom and what teacher candidates are asked to do in edTPA. At the end of the paper we make three suggestions. First, edTPA is not useful as a high-stakes assessment. Second, private publishers should play an assistive role, not a dominant role, in teacher education. Third, educators should examine the rubrics of edTPA within and across disciplines to reduce inappropriate practices.
AB - The purpose of this article is to address ethical, legal, and pedagogical issues in the use of edTPA, a mandatory and consequential assessment required for teacher candidates in the United States (and elsewhere for consideration). We discuss issues such as the cost of edTPA, implicit bias in scoring teacher candidates, marginalization in K-12 settings, property rights, privacy, and disconnections between the real classroom and what teacher candidates are asked to do in edTPA. At the end of the paper we make three suggestions. First, edTPA is not useful as a high-stakes assessment. Second, private publishers should play an assistive role, not a dominant role, in teacher education. Third, educators should examine the rubrics of edTPA within and across disciplines to reduce inappropriate practices.
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U2 - 10.14288/ce.v10i8.186418
DO - 10.14288/ce.v10i8.186418
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081714736
SN - 1920-4175
VL - 10
JO - Critical Education
JF - Critical Education
IS - 8
ER -