Educator Testing and edTPA Requirements
Tests and Assessments Required for Education Program Completion
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Teacher Education, Preservice Elementary—Multiple Subjects
- Check with Laura Barbour, Elementary Faculty Program Director, for information about the multiple measures option.
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Teacher Education, Preservice Secondary
- NB: The test titles for secondary endorsements don’t always align with the actual endorsement names. Be sure to double-check that you are registering for the correct test.
- Check with Maika Yeigh, Secondary Faculty Program Director, for information about the multiple measures option.
- Teacher Education, ESOL
- Teacher Education, Reading Intervention
- Teacher Education, Special Education: Generalist
- School Counseling
- School Psychology
- Principal License
- Professional Administrator License
Testing and Assessment Vendors
Test Registration—Selecting Test Score Recipients
Select Lewis & Clark College as a score recipient when you register for your test. If it is an option, also select “Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission” or “OR TSPC” as a recipient—TSPC may automatically receive test scores in some cases. For school psychology candidates, you will also need to select NASP as a score recipient.
If you do not select Lewis & Clark College as a score recipient, you will either need to pay an additional fee to order a score report to be sent to L&C or, depending on the vendor, you might be able to come to campus to log into your testing account to show staff in the graduate admissions office your passing score so that they can document it and enter it into your student record. Contact the graduate admissions office with questions about this option.
Your official score report will be e-mailed to you from the testing vendor approximately 2-4-weeks following your test date.
Save these e-mails in a dedicated and safe folder; if lost or deleted, you will have to either pay the test vendor for a new copy of the score report or retake the test.
(Lewis & Clark does not share or reissue records that the college did not create and cannot validate such as test and edTPA scores. If you have lost or delated your official score report, you will need to order a new copy or retake the test.)
Ordering additional score reports:
- Lewis & Clark Student Accessibility - assistance completing the forms to request extended testing time (physical, learning, or cognitive disabilities)
- Lewis & Clark Academic English Studies - assistance requesting extended testing time for candidates for whom English is not a primary language
- NES/ORELA Alternative Testing Arrangements
- ETS/Praxis Test Takers Needing Other Accommodations
- Pearson edTPA Requesting Alternative Arrangements
If you have selected Lewis & Clark as a score recipient, your score reports will be received by the graduate school approximately 4-weeks after your test date. Once received, scores will be entered into the student database so you can then view them on WebAdvisor (under “Test Summary”).
If you have received your official score report from the testing vendor but your scores do not yet appear on WebAdvisor (under “Test Summary”), please contact the Graduate Admissions office.
Your score report from the testing vendor contains your official score and test status (pass or not pass). If you see a discrepancy between your score report and the test status on WebAdvisor, please contact the Graduate Admissions office.
Effective April 6, 2017, TSPC has changed the passing score for all NES subject area tests to 220. (This change does not apply to the ORELA: Civil Rights and Administrator tests nor to Praxis Subject Assessment tests.)
Effective July 1, 2015, TSPC no longer requires a basic skills test for initial educator licensing in Oregon; however, other states may require this test.
K-12 Career and Licensing Services is located in room 204 of Rogers Hall on the Graduate Campus.
MSC: 80
email ecls@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-6008
fax 503-768-6019
Sharon Chinn Director
K-12 Career and Licensing Services
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Portland OR 97219