Educator Effectiveness

Program Year 2019-2020 Test Results by Category

| Description of Report | By Gender | By Ethnicity | By Primary Language |

Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL)
Annual Summary of Test Taker Counts by Gender
Program Year: September 2019 – August 2020

TestTotalGender
MaleFemaleNo response
N Took% PassN Took% PassN Took% PassN Took% Pass
01 Communication & Literacy Skills5,91475.5%1,24679.9%4,55174.0%11786.3%
Comm & Lit: Reading5,67082.5%1,17688.7%4,37580.6%11989.9%
Comm & Lit: Writing5,49981.6%1,19683.3%4,18680.8%11791.5%
02 Early Childhood71653.6%1330.8%69954.1%4- -
03 General Curriculum*1,95557.9%18863.8%1,75257.2%1560.0%
03 General Curriculum — Multi-Subject1,67171.7%17783.6%1,47570.1%1984.2%
03 General Curriculum — Mathematics**1,81059.5%16964.5%1,62659.2%1540.0%
06 History46971.4%26178.5%19962.8%955.6%
07 English51180.8%14187.2%36478.3%683.3%
08 Reading Specialist23969.9%5- -23270.7%2- -
09 Mathematics26574.3%11070.9%15276.3%3- -
10 General Science13681.6%3488.2%10279.4%- -- -
11 Physics5457.4%3467.6%1936.8%1- -
12 Chemistry6467.2%2065.0%4266.7%2- -
13 Biology15172.8%5084.0%9766.0%4- -
14 Earth Science1643.8%650.0%1040.0%- -- -
15 Latin and Classical Humanities666.7%3- -3- -- -- -
16 Music14265.5%5156.9%8668.6%5- -
17 Visual Art17993.9%25100.0%14892.6%6100.0%
19 Business4067.5%2972.4%1154.5%- -- -
21 Health/Family and Consumer Sciences17169.0%7962.0%9174.7%1- -
22 Physical Education32140.5%19334.2%12549.6%3- -
26 French4660.9%1154.5%3461.8%1- -
27 German2- -- -- -2- -- -- -
28 Spanish15284.9%3381.8%11486.0%5- -
29 Chinese (Mandarin)3096.7%1- -2796.3%2- -
30 Italian1369.2%3- -1070.0%- -- -
31 Russian1- -- -- -1- -- -- -
32 Portuguese1266.7%2- -1070.0%- -- -
33 Technology/Engineering3268.8%1963.2%1376.9%- -- -
44 Speech3- -1- -2- -- -- -
45 Theater3783.8%1090.0%2483.3%3- -
46 Dance1450.0%1- -1353.8%- -- -
47 Middle School Mathematics20559.5%7065.7%13456.0%1- -
48 Political Science/Political Philosophy1241.7%742.9%5- -- -- -
50 Middle School Humanities8145.7%2951.7%4942.9%3- -
51 Middle School Mathematics/Science4630.4%1533.3%3129.0%- -- -
53 Elementary Mathematics26345.2%2236.4%24046.3%1- -
54 English as a Second Language65243.9%10138.6%53944.5%1258.3%
55 Adult Basic Education1384.6%4- -9100.0%- -- -
56 Sheltered English Immersion65068.2%14346.2%49474.9%1353.8%
90 Foundations of Reading2,65661.5%29656.4%2,33361.9%2777.8%
91 Vocational Technical Literacy Skills Test (VTLST)14870.9%8058.8%6584.6%3- -
VTLST: Reading12496.0%6695.5%5496.3%4- -
VTLST: Writing15071.3%8359.0%6485.9%3- -

Note: Each test field row contains the number of candidates who took the test during the program year.

*The mathematics subtest of the General Curriculum assessment may be satisfied by passing any of the mathematics subtests: General Curriculum—Mathematics, Mathematics (Elementary), Mathematics (Middle School) or Mathematics.

**Results for the General Curriculum — Mathematics subtest do not include those candidates who took Mathematics (Elementary), Mathematics (Middle School) or Mathematics as an alternative to the General Curriculum—Mathematics subtest.

Last Updated: April 1, 2021