School Leaders Licensure Assessment Update
The School Leaders Licensure Assessment (SLLA) National Advisory Committee (NAC) met for the second time in June. We are pleased to report that the validity of the NAC's draft specifications developed in their first meeting was supported by the Job Analysis Survey results. Currently, the NAC is reviewing the draft test design (which includes both multiple-choice and constructed-response questions) assembled at their second meeting. Next steps in this process include the development of test questions as required by the test blueprint.
ETS invites state nominations for people who can work with us on item development for this test. If you wish to be considered for nomination, please send your contact information, the subject area and/or test title(s) for which you have relevant experience, and a brief description of your qualifications, including educational background and current position, to: PRAXISTDCommittee@ets.org.
While we move forward on updating the SLLA in order to meet our clients' needs for a revised assessment, we will continue to monitor and review the work being done by major stakeholder groups, such as the National Policy Board for Educational Administration and the CCSSO-Interstate Consortium for School Leadership, to ensure that the new assessment is in alignment with any changes made to the ISSLC standards. The footprint of the 6 original standards has been kept in the drafts we have reviewed, and the new test is aligned to those same 6 standards. We expect to have a new form of the test for review by states in the spring of 2008.