These new Pennsylvania Educator Certification Tests will be a twenty-first-century
program featuring a new generation of technologically advanced and customized assessments.
The purpose of the new Pennsylvania Educator Certification Tests
will be to assess the knowledge and skills of prospective Pennsylvania public school
educators. The Pennsylvania Educator Certification Tests program will help the Bureau
of School Leadership and Teacher Quality meet its goal of ensuring that candidates
have the knowledge and skills needed to perform the job of an educator in Pennsylvania
public schools.
The Pennsylvania Educator Certification Tests will be aligned with state and national standards for educator preparation and with state standards for the PreK–12 student curriculum (Pennsylvania Program Framework Guidelines).
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