AEPA PASSING REQUIREMENTS

An individual's performance on an AEPA test is evaluated against an established standard. The passing score for each professional knowledge and subject knowledge test was established by the Arizona State Board of Education and was based on the professional judgments and recommendations of Arizona educators.

To report test scores in a consistent way for all test fields and all test administrations, the scores for all tests are converted to a common scale. Test results are calculated as scores in a range from 100 to 300, with a score of 240 representing the minimum passing score. Your total test score is based on your performance on all sections of the test. For those tests that contain performance assignments, your score on the selected-response section and your score on the performance assignment section are combined to obtain your total test score on the 100 to 300 scale. If your total test score is 240 or more, you have passed the test. If your total test score falls below 240, you have not passed the test.

Scores on subsections of a test taken at one administration cannot be combined with scores on subsections of the same test taken at another administration to achieve a total test passing score.

For tests for which the total test score is a combination of the two section scores (selected-response and performance assignment), performance on one section can compensate for performance on the other section. Section scores are combined in the following ways:

• For the professional knowledge tests, the Supervisor test, and all subject knowledge tests except those noted below, the selected-response section scaled score is multiplied by 0.9, the performance assignment section scaled score is multiplied by 0.1, and the two resulting scaled scores are added.
• For the Spanish, French, and German tests, which have both written and speaking performance assignments, the selected-response section scaled score is multiplied by 0.8, the performance assignment section scaled score is multiplied by 0.2, and the two resulting scaled scores are added.
• For the Constitutions of the United States and Arizona test, your total test score will be based on the selected-response section only.
• For the Principal and Superintendent tests, which each have four performance assignments, the selected-response section scaled score is multiplied by 0.6, the performance assignment section scaled score is multiplied by 0.4, and the two resulting scaled scores are added.
• For the Reading Endorsement K–8 and Reading Endorsement 6–12 tests and the Basic Skills: Writing subtest, the selected-response section scaled score is multiplied by 0.8, the performance assignment section scaled score is multiplied by 0.2, and the two resulting scaled scores are added.

Retaking the AEPA

Examinees who wish to retake a test that they have not passed may do so at any regularly scheduled administration by submitting a new registration and payment. Note that individuals who take a computer-based test must wait 90 days before retaking the test on computer.

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