Chapter 1: A Consequential Validity Framework for Performance Assessment Implementation Based on A Statewide Adoption of Edtpa

Teacher preparation programs have begun adopting performance assess-ments such as edTPA that measure the quality of teaching performance. While this national performance-based assessment has quickly spread to more than 40 states, teacher preparation programs are faced with difficulties of changing their local practices in order to accommodate and support the new performance assessment. This chapter offers an implementation framework comprising six dimensions for describing performance assessment implementation and argues that they are part of the consequential validity of the assess-ment: (a) educational consequence, (b) meaningfulness, (c) directness, (d) transparency, (e) fairness, and (f) viability. Empirical evidence from surveys and interviews with teacher candidates and teacher educators engaged in a statewide adoption of edTPA support these dimensions and further describe the implementation concerns from real-world experience. This framework can help predict some of the implementation variation in local contexts so we can better anticipate unintended consequences of performance assessment adoption and be planful about local consequences during implementation.