Teacher Licensing, Teacher Supply, and Student Achievement: Nationwide Implementation of edTPA

Bobby W. Chung () and Jian Zou
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Bobby W. Chung: University of South Florida

No 2023-04, Working Papers from University of South Florida, Department of Economics

Abstract: The recent controversial roll-out of the educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) - a performance-based exam - raises the bar of initial teacher licensure and makes teacher recruitment difficult. We leverage the quasi-experimental setting of different adoption timing by states and analyze multiple data sources containing a national sample of prospective teachers and students of new teachers in the US. With extensive controls of concurrent policies, we find that the edTPA reduced prospective teachers in undergraduate programs, less-selective and minority-concentrated universities. Contrary to the policy intention, we do not find evidence that edTPA increased student test scores.

Keywords: teacher licensing; edTPA; occupational licensing; teacher supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J2 J44 K31 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-10
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