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Timeline for Implementing the CalTPA
General Teaching Performance Assessment Information
Process and timeline for Implementing the CalTPA
The following chart illustrates the CalTPA implementation process and timeline.
| Date | Credential Type | Assessment | Score |
| July 1, 2008 | Multiple Subject | Four CalTPA tasks: Subject-Specific Pedagogy; Designing Instruction; Assessing Learning; Culminating Teaching Experience | Cumulative score of 12 with no task score below a score level of 2. Programs may set a higher minimum score level per task. |
| Single Subject: English Mathematics, History/Social Science, Science: regular Biology, Chemistry, Geoscience, Physics | Four CalTPA tasks: Subject-Specific Pedagogy; Designing Instruction; Assessing Learning; Culminating Teaching Experience | Cumulative score of 12 with no task score below a score level of 2. Programs may set a higher minimum score level per task. | |
| Single Subject: Art; Agriculture; Business; Health Science; Home Economics; Industrial and Technology Education; Languages Other Than English; Music; Physical Education; and Specialized Science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geoscience) | Same as under Interim Teacher Preparation Program Standard 19 or alternative method proposed by program sponsor | Based on assessment process | |
| July 1, 2009 | Multiple Subject and all Single Subjects | Four CalTPA tasks: Subject-Specific Pedagogy; Designing Instruction; Assessing Learning; Culminating Teaching Experience | Cumulative score of 12 with no task score below a score level of 2. Programs may set a higher minimum score level per task. |
General Teaching Performance Assessment information
Statutory uses of the teaching performance assessment results.
Program sponsors must use the teaching performance assessment for the following statutory purposes:
- Formative information for use by the candidate
- Summative information as one basis for the recommendation of a candidate for a credential
- Evidence of program effectiveness
- Formative information for use in an induction program
Maintaining records of candidate performance on the teaching performance assessment.
Program sponsors should treat and maintain candidate records of performance on the teaching performance assessment as part of their overall student records in accordance with institutional policies and practices concerning official student records. Program sponsors will also want to take into consideration the maintenance and availability of aggregate candidate data for accreditation purposes.
Overall program responsibilities relative to the teaching performance assessment.
Program sponsors are responsible for providing and/or assuring:
- oversight for the implementation of the teaching performance assessment
- sufficient qualified, trained assessors of candidate performance
- double scoring of a minimum percentage (15-20%, depending on performance assessment model) of candidate responses on each task to ensure reliability of scoring and fairness to candidates across the state
- maintenance of candidate records (as described above)
- use of assessment results for the purposes specified by statute (as described above)