About National Evaluation Series™

The National Evaluation Series™ encompasses a wide array of tools from which states can choose to support their educator credentialing program. Included among these tools are:

• Traditional "Professional" assessments in over 60 fields;
• National Evaluation Series™ "Essentials" — assessment content delivered in short modules, allowing candidates to focus on specific areas of their field;
• National Evaluation Series™ Right Start Educator Learning Courses that directly prepare candidates for our assessments;
• Foundations of Reading, which focuses on evidence-based literacy instruction; and
• Paraprofessional assessment for credentialing paraeducators.

The National Evaluation Series™ tools can be combined in countless ways to meet the unique policy and practical goals of your state agency.

This school year, all 50 states reported educator shortages to the US Department of Education. Acute problems require creative solutions—Evaluation Systems has set out to reimagine educator credentialing in a way that will drive a robust, modern educator workforce. The National Evaluation Series™ is the only nationally available educator credentialing set of solutions purposefully designed to respond to educator shortages nationwide.

Evaluation Systems will simplify the process of creating and maintaining your credentialing program—your National Evaluation Series™ Program team is committed to understanding your agency's unique situation relative to your state's educational and legislative climate. We will engage with your agency as we seek to understand your needs and offer you meaningful solutions to meet those needs.

Through the National Evaluation Series™, your state has the opportunity to share creative assessment solutions successfully implemented in other states—leveraging proven credentialing approaches in states with similar policy goals—to create a customized and comprehensive program aligned to your state’s education system.

Your success is the metric of our success, and we will help you every step of the way as you develop, implement, and augment, as needed, a creative, flexible credentialing program designed to provide every student with teachers and leaders that will help them learn.

The redesigned National Evaluation Series™ is the only nationally available educator credentialing assessment program purposefully structured to respond to educator shortages and to flexibly align with current state policy goals.

Among the many assessments available in Evaluation Systems' redesigned National Evaluation Series™ are two types of assessments, highlighted below, that can be strategically used in tandem to achieve your state policy goals—Series Professional and Series Essentials.

The addition of National Evaluation Series™ Essentials to your state's assessment solution set is a paradigm shift in the way Evaluation Systems can help you achieve your goal of placing a greater number of qualified teachers in your classrooms.

About Series FLEX

Series FLEX provides an assessment option for National Evaluation Series™ candidates whose score on select National Evaluation Series™ tests meets their state's eligibility requirements (for more information about eligibility for Series FLEX, candidates should review the relevant Series FLEX test page). Candidates who meet this eligibility requirement may have the opportunity to submit a Series FLEX test as an alternative to retaking the full National Evaluation Series™ test if their state has adopted the corresponding Series FLEX test.

Following the directions provided in the Series FLEX Handbook and the test-specific Series FLEX template, candidates provide an analysis of a National Evaluation Series™ test objective to demonstrate the depth of their subject matter knowledge. Most candidates will provide a written submission to demonstrate their subject matter knowledge. Candidates will complete the analysis and submit it to be scored using Pearson's ePortfolio system. Candidates who pass Series FLEX will meet the relevant subject matter test requirement for their license but may still need to take and pass additional subject matter tests as required by their licensure area.