CAEP Accountability Measures
The Annual Accreditation Report (Annual Report) process, is used to monitor and evaluate an educator preparation provider's (EPP) continued compliance with CAEP standards.
The annual monitoring and evaluation expectations of accredited EPPs are periodically revisited, as appropriate, to meet the requirements of CAEP policy, recognition guidelines of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), and federal accreditor recognition requirements.
The following sections contain information and data related to accountability measures as define by CAEP. This information is collected annually via a variety of data sources.
For more information on each CAEP accountability measure, please click on the appropriate section below.
- Measure 1 - Completer Effectiveness
The State of Tennessee and Tennessee Tech University track, monitor, and measure the impact of our teachers on student learning, growth, and development. Below are measures that are used to assess this impact. This data is used to inform college-wide as well as programmatic improvement within the College of Education & Human Sciences.
Measure 1
Teacher effectiveness is measured by the State of Tennessee and Tennessee Tech University in a few ways that are explained in the sections below.
Tennessee Value-Added Assessment (TVAAS)
The first way is via the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS). TVAAS measures the impact that teachers have on their students' academic progress. Rather than measuring proficiency, TVAAS specifically captures student growth so as to better represent the effect that teachers and schools can have on students. TVAAS is scored from levels 1-5. Levels 1 and 2 indicate that a teacher's students are making less than expected growth, Level 3 indicates that students are making expected growth, and Levels 4 and 5 indicate that students are exceeding expected growth.
In the most recent State of TN Report Card (2025), Tennessee Tech University had 53.1% (n = 245) of cohort members score at Level 3 or above and 19.6% (n = 245) score at Level 4 or above on TVAAS. This was near the state averages of 58.9% and 23.4%, respectively.
A detailed breakdown and disaggregated data can be found on the Tennessee State Board of Education website on the "Provider Impact" page in the dropdown menu.
Level of Overall Effectiveness (LOE)
The State of Tennessee also measures completer effectiveness using a metric called the Level of Overall Effectiveness (LOE). LOE scores include multiple measures of a teacher's performance in the classroom including classroom observation scores and TVAAS scores. This metric reports the percentage of cohort members who earned a level of overall effectiveness and includes a scale from 1-5 where a score of 3 indicates "At Expectations" and a score of 4 indicates "Above Expectations".
In the most recent State of TN Report Card (2025), Tennessee Tech University had 91.1% (cohort n = 1,287) of cohort members score at Level 3 or above and 64.3% (cohort n = 1,287) score at Level 4 or above on LOE. This was above the state averages of 90.5% and 63.1%, respectively.
A detailed breakdown and disaggregated data can be found on the Tennessee State Board of Education website.
Previous years' measures of teaching effectiveness are available:
2024 Measures of Completer Effectiveness
2023 Measures of Completer Effectiveness
2022 Measures of Completer Effectiveness
2021 Measures of Completer Effectiveness
- Measure 2 - Employer Satisfaction & Stakeholder Involvement
Measure 2
Stakeholder Involvement
The College of Education & Human Sciences at Tennessee Tech gathers internal stakeholder feedback and program design/evaluation recommendations on a continual basis. Once gathered, this feedback is summarized and presented to two decision-making bodies within the College of Education & Human Sciences, the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and the Teacher Education Committee (TEC). Both groups evaluate relevant feedback and make recommendations based on existing data and current/future trends (e.g., enrollment, employment trends, etc).
Employer Feedback
Employer feedback is gathered primarily through surveys and meetings with district and primary partners. Data from the employer survey for academic year 2024-2025 will be available in May 2026 and will be shared on this page.
- Measure 3 - Candidate Competency at Completion
Measure 3
The Tennessee Educator Preparation Report Card provides a public view of the competencies of Tennessee Tech's candidates, as measured by multiple assessments required to obtain a teacher or leader licensure. Tennessee Tech met expectations on the 2025 Tennessee Report Card in the area of candidate assessment, which is comprised of pedagogical assessment pass rate and content assessment pass rate.
For the 2025 report card, 77.8% (n = 924) of Tennessee Tech University teacher candidates passed their subject-area assessment(s). This percentage includes cohort members who passed the subject-area assessments within two attempts.
Tennessee Tech graduates had a first-time pass rate of 50% for the literacy assessment. This assessment is only required for certain licensure areas and is higher than the state average of 33.6%. Further, Tennessee Tech candidates passed the literacy assessment at a rate of 90.1%, which is above the state average of 88.2%.
Previous years' measures of candidate competency at completion:
2024 Measures of Competency at Completion
2023 Measures of Competency at Completion
2022 Measures of Competency at Completion
2021 Measures of Competency at Completion
- Measure 4 - Ability of Completers to be Hired
Measure 4
Information about Tennessee Tech's teacher candidates and their resulting employment in Tennessee public schools is collected and reported through the Tennessee State Board of Education Report Card. The report card includes important teacher retention metrics such as first-year employment in Tennessee public schools as well as second and third year retention rates.
The rate of first-year employment in Tennessee public schools reports the percentage of cohort members who were employed in Tennessee public schools within one year of completing their preparation program or within one year of enrolling in a job-embedded program. Additionally, the second and third year retention rates report the percentage of first-year employed cohort members who remained teaching in Tennessee public schools for a second and third year, respectively.
In the most recent report card, Tennessee Tech reported a rate of first-year employment in Tennessee public schools of 88.8% (n = 760), which is higher than the state average of 84.6%. Tennessee Tech also had higher reported second (94.5%, n = 546) and third year (90.0%, n = 261) retention rate when compared to the state averages of 94.2% and 85.1%, respectively. Overall, Tennessee Tech "Exceeds Expectations" in the area of candidate employment.
See a detailed breakdown of these metrics:
2025 Employment and Retention section of the report card.Employment locations of Tennessee Tech's recent completers and job-embedded candidates can be found on the Tennessee State Board of Education's District Placement List.
