Educator Testing and edTPA Requirements

Graduate Admissions Testing

• We do not require tests for admission to any of our graduate programs

• Teacher Education, Preservice Elementary—Multiple Subjects
  • Check with Linda Griffin, Elementary Faculty Program Director, for information about the multiple measures option.
• 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 Liza Finkel, 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
• Educational Administration, Principal License
• Educational Administration, Professional Administrator License

• NES (NES and ORELA tests)
• ETS (PRAXIS tests)
• Pearson edTPA

• Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) provides a number of scholarship and reimbursement programs (including for test fees) for diverse educators, linked here.
• NES/ORELA Fee Waiver Sample Information (Example: Art)
• ETS Fee Waivers

• 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

Your official score report will be e-mailed to you from the testing vendor approximately 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.

• NES (NES and ORELA tests) Score Reports
• ETS (PRAXIS tests) Score Reports
• Pearson edTPA

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.