Abstract
The Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium funded the development of a licensure assessment based on its Standards for School Leaders. But moving from a set of professional standards to a licensure assessment poses many challenges and raises difficult questions: Which standards should be assessed? How authentic should an authentic assessment be? How can licensure assessment help lead the field to a new pedagogical paradigm, when licensure has typically been reserved for protecting the public? This article explains these challenges and documents the methods used to meet them in the development of the School Leaders Licensure Assessment.
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Latham, A.S., Pearlman, M.A. From Standards to Licensure: Developing an Authentic Assessment for School Principals. Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education 13, 245–262 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008169919434
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