Linking Faculty Knowledge and Skills to Candidate Performance: Applying "Levels of Use" to edTPA Implementation

• In Event: 25.068 - Roundtable Session 8
  In Roundtable Session: 25.068-12 - Implementing Assessments in Teacher Preparation: Relationship to Faculty Characteristics, Effects on Teachers, and Implications for Educator Preparation Providers

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the depth at which faculty incorporated edTPA elements in their curriculum and candidate outcomes. Multiple cases of individual faculty who participated in the larger institutional case study will be used to examine how all the programmatic and curricular changes and initiatives during the process of implementing the edTPA impacted candidate outcomes. Semi-structured interviews will allow us to determine participants’ Levels of Use of five key edTPA elements, interpretation of edTPA data, and sense of ownership of candidate performance. We hypothesize that interviews will identify situational leaders among the faculty who can serve as local edTPA experts and help those who seem to be “stuck” at mechanical or routine levels.

Authors

• Gaoyin Qian, Lehman College - CUNY

• Harriet R. Fayne, Lehman College - CUNY