• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Professional Educator Standards Board

A-Z Topic Index

facebook logoteal twitter iconyoutube logo
  • Home
  • Educator pathways
    • Educators of the Deaf and visually impaired
    • First peoples’ language, culture, and oral traditions certification
    • Alternative routes to teacher certification
      • Find an alternative route program
    • Becoming an educator
      • Find a preparation program
      • Find an endorsement offering
    • Recruiting Washington Teachers (RWT)
      • RWT curriculum and resources
      • RWT reports
  • Current educators
    • Assignment
      • Educational staff associates
      • Endorsements
      • Teacher
    • Certificate renewal
      • Clock hours
      • Educational leadership
      • Educator standards, SEL, CCDEI
      • Equity-based school practices
      • Government-to-government relations
      • Professional growth plans (PGPs)
      • Providers for educational leadership and equity requirements
      • STEM integration
      • Suicide prevention training
    • Human resources
      • Educator conduct
    • District workforce data
    • Educator shortage
  • Preparation programs
    • Approval
      • Become a new program
      • Change an approved program
      • Course approval
      • Offer an endorsement
      • Propose a new specialty endorsement
    • Review
      • 27-month review
      • Curriculum and instruction review
      • Indicator-based review
      • Program review results
    • Standards and requirements
      • Educator assessments
      • Endorsement competencies
      • Field placement plans
      • Instructional topic requirements
      • PGP for program completion
      • Program standards
      • Role standards
  • Paraeducator program
    • District implementation
      • District reimbursement
    • Minimum employment requirements
    • Program components
  • Resources & reports
    • Reports
    • Data portal
    • Handouts
    • Online learning
    • Professional Learning
  • Innovation to policy
    • CCDEI standards
    • Equity initiatives
    • “Grow Your Own” Initiative
    • Innovation archive
    • Workgroups
      • Advancing equity workgroup
      • Computer science specialty endorsement
      • Educational interpreters for the deaf
      • Educator professional growth
      • Interveners for the DeafBlind
      • Professional educator collaborative
    • Grants & pilots
      • Advancing equity grant
      • Alternative routes block grant
      • Educational Interpreter Grant
      • ESD alternative routes grant
      • Expanding computer science for elementary educators
      • “Grow Your Own” Pilot Program
      • LEADER initiative
      • Multiple measures pilot for the edTPA
      • Recruiting Washington Teachers – Bilingual Educators Initiative
      • Recruiting Washington Teachers
      • Teaching equity grant
    • Legislative affairs
      • Legislative updates
  • About us
    • Contact us
    • COVID-19 guidance
    • News
    • Rule making
    • Strategic plan
    • Job opportunities
    • Board meetings
      • Previous Paraeducator Board meetings and materials
      • Previous PESB meetings and materials
    • Who we are
      • About the Professional Educator Standards Board
      • About the Paraeducator Board
You are here: Home / Innovation to policy / Grants & pilots / Multiple measures pilot for the edTPA

Multiple measures pilot for the edTPA

Washington State cannot afford to lose potential teachers who could bring a range of strengths and skills to the classroom, but are unable to become certified as a result of the high stakes nature of current performance assessment policy. Washington remains committed to providing flexible and sustainable approaches to support educator candidates as they work to meet assessment requirements.

At the July 2020 meeting, PESB approved a one year, multiple measures pilot to offer greater flexibility for candidates to meet the edTPA requirements. This pilot will help to reduce barriers and allow for more equitable pathways into the teaching profession. View pilot policy WAC (document).

The multiple measures pilot was based on recommendations from PESB’s educator assessment workgroup, which was tasked with examining inequitable barriers and challenges that assessments may create for educator candidates. A multiple measures process for the edTPA contributes to a culturally responsive and coherent assessment system, and ensures a properly credentialed and diverse teacher workforce. It provides more flexibility in acknowledging individual candidate differences. Learn more about the workgroup.

What is the multiple measures process?

Candidates who do not pass the edTPA may be eligible to demonstrate alternative evidence of effective performance as determined by their program. This pilot allows teacher preparation programs to recommend candidates for certification using one or more multiple measures as the basis for their review. Programs have the discretion to select which measures to use, including:

  • Observing the candidate’s practice in their role, as documented by their mentor teacher or the preparation program provider;
  • Evidence submitted by the candidate to the program provider in the areas of planning, instruction, or student assessment;
  • Coursework; or
  • Other measures as determined by the program provider.

After a review of measures, programs can recommend a candidate for certification if they determine the candidate has the requisite knowledge and skills, and the candidate has met all other requirements for program completion.

Who is eligible for the multiple measures pilot?

Preparation programs may choose whether they would like to participate in the multiple measures pilot. Programs not participating in the pilot would continue to require a passing score of 40 (or 34 for world and classical languages.)

Candidates in any endorsement area who are enrolled at a Washington State approved program participating in the pilot are eligible for a multiple measures review. Candidates need to take the edTPA once and receive a score between 35-39 (or 29-33 for world and classical languages) to be eligible. At program discretion, candidates who have previously taken the edTPA may be eligible for multiple measures.

edTPA area Passing score One SEM below current passing score. This is the minimum score for eligibility for multiple measures.
All areas except world and classical languages 40 35
World and classical languages 34 29

Candidates can be recommended under the multiple measures pilot through June 30, 2021.

How do preparation programs participate?

Preparation program leaders need to plan for the following in their multiple measures process:

  • Convene a committee
  • Identify candidates eligible for multiple measures
  • Review multiple measures
  • Recommend candidates
  • Prepare to submit data and feedback

Additional information can be found in our guidance document for programs (document).

More information

  • Guidance for programs on the multiple measures pilot (document)
  • The edTPA contractor has guidance available to candidates who prepare and provide instruction to students in virtual learning environments. Find out more.
  • There is an emergency certificate available for candidates who have met all program completion requirements, with the exception of one or more of the assessment requirements, including the edTPA. Find out more about the emergency certificate.

Questions

Please contact pesb@k12.wa.us for more information.

Primary Sidebar

  • Innovation to policy
    • Cultural competency, diversity, equity, and inclusion (CCDEI) standards
    • Equity initiatives
      • Diversity and equity resources
      • First Peoples’ Language, Culture and Oral Traditions Certification
        • Technical assistance
      • Reports, Presentations, and Resources
      • Solidarity with Black lives matter
    • Grants & pilots
      • Advancing equity grant
      • Alternative routes block grant
      • Educational Interpreter Grant
      • ESD alternative routes grant
      • Expanding computer science for elementary educators
      • “Grow Your Own” Pilot Program
      • LEADER initiative
      • Multiple measures pilot for the edTPA
      • Recruiting Washington Teachers – Bilingual Educators Initiative
      • Recruiting Washington Teachers
      • Teaching equity grant
    • “Grow Your Own” Initiative
      • “Grow Your Own” Resources
      • Grow Your Own teachers report
      • Recruitment Report
    • Innovation archive
      • Advanced paraeducator certificate
      • Alternative Routes
      • Alternative route to teaching certification redesign work group
      • Bilingual teacher pipeline work group
      • Career and Technical Education: phase 1
      • Career and Technical Education: phase 2
      • Case-by-case exceptions
      • Clock hour
      • Collaborative schools for innovation and success
      • Credentialing for educators of the blind and visually impaired
      • Credentialing for educators of the deaf
      • CTE program review
      • Educator assessment system
      • Educator Career Continuum
      • ELL subject matter certificate
      • ESA certification
      • General paraeducator certificate
      • Limited Certificate
      • Micro-credential pilot grant
      • National Board Issues
      • Paraeducator pilot
      • Paraeducator pilot program
      • “Paraeducators: What We Do Matters” Modules
      • Paraeducator work group
      • Professional practice
      • Road Map ELL Endorsement Pathway Program
      • RWT redesign work group
        • RWT work group recommendations
      • Special education subject matter certificate
      • Special Projects Fund
      • Standards, approval, and review committee
      • Substitute paraeducator
      • Testing barriers
    • Legislative affairs
      • Legislative updates
    • Workgroups
      • Advancing equity workgroup
      • Computer science specialty endorsement
      • Educational interpreters for the deaf
      • Educator professional growth
      • Interveners for the DeafBlind
      • Professional educator collaborative

Footer

Seal of the state of Washington

Professional Educator Standards Board

Old Capitol Building
600 Washington Street SE
Olympia, WA 98504-7236

PESB@k12.wa.us
Paraboard@k12.wa.us

(360) 725-6275

STAY UPDATED

Sign up with your email address to receive news and event information.

Copyright © 2023 · Staff Intranet