Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Defining Teacher Quality -- 3 Testing and Licensing Beginning Teachers -- 4 Developing an Evaluation Framework for Teacher Licensure Tests -- 5 Evaluating Current Tests -- 6 Using Licensure Tests to Improve Teacher Quality and Supply -- 7 Using Licensure Tests for Accountability -- 8 Improving Teacher Licensure Testing -- 9 Conclusions and Recommendations -- References -- Appendix A Public Law 105-244 105th Congress -- Appendix B Teaching Standards of the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC), National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) -- Appendix C Educational Testing Service (ETS) and National Evaluation Systems (NES) Teacher Licensure Tests -- Appendix D Teacher Requirements in Six States -- Appendix E An Economic Model of Supply and Demand for Teachers -- Appendix F Alternative Assessment Case Studies -- Appendix G Biographical Sketches of Committee Members -- Index -- Test 1 Preprofessional Skills Test (PPST): Reading Test* -- Test 2 Principles of Learning and Teaching Test (PLT): K-6* -- Test 3 Middle School: English/Language Arts Test* -- Test 4 High School Mathematics Proofs, Models, and Problems Part 1 Test* -- Test 5 Biology: Content Knowledge, Part 1 and 2 Tests*.