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We find that candidates’ performance on the CAP significantly predicts their in-service summative performance evaluations in their first 2 years in the teaching workforce, but it is not predictive of their value added to student test scores in these years. These findings suggest that the CAP captures aspects of candidates’ skills and competencies that are better reflected in their future performance evaluations than by their impacts on student performance.  \nKeywords  \nteacher preparation, teacher quality, teacher education  \n1 CALDER, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC, USA  \nCorresponding Author:  \nRoddy Theobald, CALDER, American Institutes for Research, 3876 Bridge Way N, Suite 201, Seattle, WA 98103, USA.  \nEmail: [rtheobald@air.org](rtheobald@air.org)  \nIntroduction  \nOne of the most pressing questions faced by state education systems is how to ensure that prospective teachers have effective teaching practices before they have classroom responsibilities of their own. While nearly every state in the country requires candidates to pass licensure tests of their basic skills and/or subject-specific knowledge as a requirement for licensure, states are increasingly adopting authentic, or performance-based, assessments that candidates must pass as an additional licensure or preparation program requirement. Yet there is relatively little evidence about whether these performance-based assessments are related to the in-service performance of teachers.1  \nMassachusetts developed and utilizes the Candidate Assessment of Performance (CAP), a practice-based assessment of teaching skills that is the centerpiece of the state’s efforts to assess the quality of teacher candidates before they enter the state’s teaching workforce. The CAP is typically completed during a candidate’s student teaching placement and requires teachers to demonstrate evidence of effective classroom practice. Passing the CAP is high stakes in that it became a requirement for teacher preparation program completion in Massachusetts in the 2016 to 2017 school year.  \nIt is important to distinguish the CAP from traditional licensure tests that prospective teachers are also required to pass, such as the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL), which are a licensure requirement in the state. In particular, the CAP is designed to assess teaching skills that are closely aligned with the state’s Standards for Effective Practice and thus provides a direct link between teacher candidates’ preparation and the professional standards expected of them as Massachusetts teachers. The CAP also consists of both a formative and a summative assessment (typically completed near the midpoint and end ofa candidate’s student teaching placement) on which candidates are evaluated on six different standards and three different dimensions of their teaching competence.2 Thus, the CAP has the potential to provide nuanced and timely feedback about the specific skills and competencies of individual candidates to the candidates themselves and their teacher preparation programs to drive candidate professional development and teacher preparation program improvement.  \nBut for the CAP to function as conceived, the info","cbCaipoxfiR0lo10","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipoxfiR0lo10","pdf",1336819,33,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# The Candidate Assessment of Performance\n## Purpose and implementation timeline\n## Differences from traditional licensure tests\n## Alignment with state standards and competencies","[{\"question\":\"What is the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance (CAP)?\",\"answer\":\"CAP is a practice-based assessment of teaching skills completed during student teaching. 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