Performance Assessment for California Teachers

General Information

edTPA is a performance-based assessment process designed by educators to answer the essential question of whether new teachers are ready for the job. edTPA was developed by the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity (SCALE). SCALE has partnered with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) to create and deliver a support and assessment program for teacher candidates that can be used around the country. edTPA is administered through Pearson as the Teacher Licensure Testing And Performance Assessment. You can find out more information regarding edTPA once you are a graduate student candidate in the MAT program and have created an account through Pearson.

Useful Links and Information

• edTPA http://edtpa.aacte.org/
  • edTPA Resources http://edtpa.aacte.org/resources
• SCALE https://scale.stanford.edu/
• Pearson Assessment http://www.pearsonassessments.com/teacherlicensure/edtpa.html
• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) http://aacte.org/

• Theorists:   Educational Psychologists, Theorists, Researchers, and Authors
  • Elliot Aronson (cognitive dissonance theory)
  • David Ausubel (subsumption theory, advance organizers)
  • Albert Bandura (social cognitive theory and self-efficacy)
  • James Banks (multiethnic education)
  • Alfred Binet (measurement of intelligence)
  • Benjamin Bloom (classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery-learning)
  • Ann Brown (guided discovery, metacognition)
  • John D. Bransford (how people learn)
  • Jerome Bruner (cognitive learning theory, philosophy of education, discovery learning)
  • Linda Darling-Hammond (restructuring, teacher education, and educational equity.)
  • John Dewey (pragmatism, educational progressivism)
  • John Flavell (metacognition)
  • Neil Flemming (VARK; Learning styles: Visual, Auditory, Reading, Kinesthetic)
  • Paulo Freire (critical pedagogy)
  • Robert Gagné (conditions of learning, computer based learning)
  • Howard Gardner (theory of multiple intelligences)
  • Donna Golnick (multicultural education)
  • Anthony Gregorc (student learning styles)
  • David Kolb (experiential learning theory)
  • C. Bonwell (active learning)
  • Maria Montessori (absorbent mind, child centered alternative educational method for children)
  • Sonia Nieto (multiculturalism)
  • Seymour Papert (cognitive science, constructionism, discovery learning, asynchronous learning)
  • Jean Piaget, (theory of development, genetic epistemology, constructivism, discovery learning)
  • Lee Schulman (pedagogical content knowledge)
  • Lev S. Vygotsky (social cognition, distinction between lower and higher mental functions)
  • Robert Yager (science/technology/society)