Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching

In 1987, Educational Testing Service (ETS) began a large-scale project to provide a framework for state and local agencies to use for making teacher licensing decisions. The resulting program is called The PRAXIS Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers®. Many states use PRAXIS I: Computer-Based Academic Skills Assessment and PRAXIS II: Subject Assessments to grant an initial teaching license. PRAXIS III: Classroom Performance Assessments is for use in assessing actual teaching skills and classroom performance.