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Race, Gender, and Teacher Testing: How Informative a Tool Is Teacher Licensure Testing?
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Goldhaber, Dan; Hansen, Michael – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
Virtually all states require teachers to undergo licensure testing before participation in the public school labor market. This article analyzes the information these tests provide about teacher effectiveness. The authors find that licensure tests have different predicative validity for student achievement by teacher race. They also find that…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Competency Testing, Academic Achievement, Licensing Examinations (Professions)