They looked not only at student test score gains, but also at years of teacher experience and teacher licensing exam scores. (hechingerreport.org)
State education officials are eyeing a plan that could «recalibrate» — and presumably lower — passing scores on a challenging new teacher licensing exam that has produced a failure rate of more than 20 percent since it was introduced statewide in 2015. (nystateofpolitics.com)
As for the current means of measuring a prospective teacher's readiness for the classroom, A 2012 investigation by Education Week's Stephen Sawchuk concluded that raising the cut scores for state - level teacher licensing exams might not do much to boost instructional quality. (ewa.org)