Testing & edTPA/LAO Requirements

• Teacher Education, Preservice Elementary—Multiple Subjects
  • Check with Laura Barbour, Elementary Faculty Program Director, for information about the content knowledge multiple measures option and about the edTPA.
• 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 content knowledge multiple measures option and about the Secondary Local Assessment Option (LAO).
• Teacher Education, ESOL
• Teacher Education, Reading Intervention
• Teacher Education, Special Education: Generalist
• School Counseling
• School Psychology
• Principal License
• Professional Administrator License

Use your permanent personal email address rather than a temporary college, district, or work email address when registering for your test so that you can easily access test results in the future.

• If you register using a temporary email address including your lclark@ or school district email address, once those email addresses are no longer valid, you will have to take additional steps with the testing vendor to prove your identity, create a new account with assistance, and have any archived records moved to the new account.

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 Shanta Calem with questions about this option.

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 in Self-Service.

If you have received your official score report from the testing vendor but your scores do not yet appear in Self-Service, please contact Shanta Calem.

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 in Self-Service, please contact Shanta Calem.

Secondary LAO scores will appear in Taskstream and not in Self-Service.

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.

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:

• NES and ORELA Score Reports
• ETS: Praxis Score Reports
• Pearson edTPA Score Reports

Requesting Extended Testing Time and Test Anxiety

• Lewis & Clark Office of 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
• Lewis & Clark Student Counseling Center - resources for coping with test anxiety
• NES/ORELA Alternative Testing Arrangements
• ETS/Praxis Test Takers Needing Other Accommodations
• Pearson edTPA Requesting Alternative Arrangements

Tutoring

• Lewis & Clark Office of Student Accessibility - tutoring resources in many areas including mathematics

• Oregon TSPC Financial Assistance Webpage
• NES/ORELA Fee Waiver Sample Information (Example: Art)
• ETS Fee Waivers