Sentences with phrase «teacher licensing exams»

They looked not only at student test score gains, but also at years of teacher experience and teacher licensing exam scores.

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.

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.

For more than a year, we've been following the stories of promising young teachers who excelled in college but have repeatedly failed Florida's teacher licensing exam.