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Tennessee panel reviews Praxis, Pearson and alternate assessment options and vendor challenges
Summary
Tennessee Department of Education staff reviewed the state's assessment landscape — Praxis (ETS), Pearson, ALTA and other options — and discussed new vendor products (Praxis Bridge, Pearson Flex, series essentials), operational issues with at‑home testing, and questions about how new options would affect pass-rate reporting and processing.
Tennessee Department of Education staff walked committee members through the current content-assessment landscape, vendor options and implementation questions for licensure and endorsement pathways.
Taylor Reed, senior director of educator licensure at the Tennessee Department of Education, summarized available vendors and programs: "We have ETS, who is the vendor for our Praxis assessments. And those are the majority of the content assessments... We also have Pearson who has, not only the edTPA, but the national evaluation series for content assessments. And then for our foreign languages, we use the ALTA program." Reed emphasized that Tennessee uses vendor-recommended cut scores and currently does not accept other states' assessments in lieu of Tennessee's required assessments.
New vendor opportunities and practical implications
- ETS / Praxis options: Reed said some states adopt a standard error of…
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