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Francis John Troyan; Pete Swanson; Victoria Russell – Hispania, 2023
Both within the field of world language (WL) teacher education and across teacher education in other disciplines, critiques of the edTPA have increased over the past several years. In WL language education, scholars have identified issues related to raters' use of edTPA rubrics and a serious lack of transparency about rater expertise. To better…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Performance Based Assessment, Language Teachers, Teacher Certification
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Lyness, Scott A.; Peterson, Kent; Yates, Kenneth – Education Sciences, 2021
The Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) is a high stakes summative assessment that was designed to measure pre-service teacher readiness. We examined the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of trained PACT evaluators who rated 19 candidates. As measured by Cohen's weighted kappa, the overall IRR estimate was 0.17 (poor strength of…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Language