Review of Studies of the Concurrent and Predictive Validity of the National Teacher Examinations

This review is organized into four main sections. In the first, the background and purposes of the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) and the hazards of combining data on these tests in research studies are discussed briefly. The second section is concerned with articles related to the concurrent validity of the NTE and their relationship to pre-service teacher preparation. The third section has to do with the predictive validity of the NTE with in-service teachers. The last section is a summary of the research findings. The reader who wants more detailed information about any article mentioned in this review is urged to study the more extended discussion of these articles in the annotated bibliography by Quirk, Witten, and Weinberg (1972). The National Teacher Examinations have been in existence for