The researcher analyzed data from two online cohorts of preservice teachers at a university in Washington State. Teacher education policies vary from state to state, with varying requirements for basic skills and standardized performance tests for teacher licensure. At the time of this study, Washington State required minimum scores for both basic…

We use longitudinal data from Washington State to provide estimates of the extent to which performance on the edTPA, a performance-based, subject-specific assessment of teacher candidates, is predictive of the likelihood of employment in the teacher workforce and value-added measures of teacher effectiveness. While edTPA scores are highly…

Data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,312) were analyzed to examine whether the adverse effects of early insensitive parenting on children's academic functioning can be offset by parents' later involvement in children's education. Observations of mothers' early…