CONCERNS ABOUT THE edTPA include
- Using the edTPA as a single, redactive assessment of teacher performance, rather than the use of multiple evidence based assessments to recommend a candidate for licensure
- The effect of the edTPA on the student teaching experience
- Cut scores established without sufficient time to study the results of the pilot test, or of the assessment itself, including sufficient data about gender, ethnicity, and primary language use of candidates
- Validity and reliability, as well as implicit bias, due to the wide variation of contexts for student teaching placement and the cultural competency of scorers
- Variation in the way the edTPA is administered and supported in programs and student teaching placement sites
- The effect on students who fail some or all of the edTPA, including increased costs to retake the assessment, because of the narrow timeframe during which the assessment must be submitted
- Student and teacher privacy due to the proliferation of edTPA videos on social media
- The effect on academic freedom and the loss of local control to recommend teacher candidates for licensure
- The influence of a corporation like Pearson on determining who can, and cannot, become a teacher