Assessing Teachers for Professional Certification
The First Decade of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Published on 4. February 2008
Book
Hardback
634 pages
978-0-7623-1055-5 (ISBN)
Description
Nothing is as fundamental to the quality of a school system as the quality of its teachers. For this reason many countries are seeking policies that meet the challenge of promoting quality teaching. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) in the USA is the most ambitious and successful attempt by any country to establish a certification system for recognizing and rewarding teachers who reach high professional standards. Established in 1987, the Boards mission has been driven by a simple principle; to place more value on accomplished teaching, we must learn how to evaluate teacher performance in ways that are valid, reliable and fair. By late 2007, over 60,000 teachers had become National Board Certified Teachers. As other countries place increasing importance on policies designed to attract, develop, and retain effective teachers there is growing interest in the extensive research and development work that has underpinned the Boards certification system and guided its implementation. The main purpose of this book is to bring together, for international as well as non-specialist audiences, papers written by the key researchers involved in the development of National Board assessments between 1987 and 1997.One of the many reasons why the Boards work is noteworthy is the extent to which, at every stage of development, it has subjected its standards and certification process to critique by leading figures in educational measurement, as the chapters in this volume illustrate. As a result, the NBPTS has made a major contribution to international understanding about how to develop valid standards and reliable methods for assessing teacher performance that gain both professional and public esteem. The NBPTS provides an example of a well researched certification scheme for measuring teacher quality that can provide a service to governments and employers seeking a reliable indicator of teacher quality. Standards are the gateway to greater professional self-direction, and a certification system is a means by which the teaching profession can build its own infrastructure for defining high quality teaching standards, promoting development toward those standards and providing recognition to those who meet them. This book also aims to provide some of the many lessons the Board has learned about how to make a professional certification system for teachers manageable and affordable, which is perhaps an even greater challenge. This is a special volume focussing on The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS).
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1055 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7623-1055-5 (9780762310555)
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The First Decade of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
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Content
Chapter 1 Introduction.
Chapter 2 Reshaping teaching policy, preparation, and practice: Influences of the national board for professional teaching standards.
Chapter 3 The design architecture of NBPTS certification assessments.
Chapter 4 Validating the specification of standards for teaching: Applications to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards' Assessments.
Chapter 5 The role of subject-matter knowledge in teacher assessment.
Chapter 6 Developing a National Science Assessment for teacher certification: Practical lessons learned.
Chapter 7 The evolution of the scoring system for NBPTS assessments.
Chapter 8 Setting performance standards for National Board assessments: A reprise on research and development.
Chapter 9 Reliability and NBPTS assessments.
Chapter 10 A critical review of the validity research agenda of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards at the end of its first decade.
Chapter 11 Identifying accomplished teachers: A validation study.
Chapter 12 A validity study of the certification system of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Chapter 13 Effects of the National Board for professional teaching standards certification process on teachers' perspectives and practices.
Chapter 14 Providing feedback to teacher candidates for National Board certification: A study of teacher preferences and learning.
Chapter 15 The National Board for professional teaching standards: An indispensable reform in American education.
Chapter 16 Can professional certification for teachers reshape teaching as a career? Implementing change in the U.S..
List of Appendix.
List of Contributors.
Foreword.
Appendix A: Full text of the directions for the EA/ELA portfolio task.
Appendix B: Full Specifications of the EA/ELA assessment centre.
Appendix C: Overall assessment design for EA/ELA.
Appendix D: Overview of portfolio requirements and assessment centre specifications for one of the newly developed EA/ELA next generation assessments.
Appendix E: Example of portfolio task for next generation EA/ELA assessment.
Appendix F: Portfolio assessor training materials list.
Appendix G: Sample Rubric for the Next Generation EA/ELA Assessment.
Appendix H: EA/ELA Language Study Sample Assessment Centre Task, Essential Features, and Scoring Rubric.
Appendix I : Procedures and Instructions for Weighting Entries and Exercises.
Appendix J: Reliability estimation attributable to assessors.
Appendix K: Reliability estimation attributable to exercises.
Appendix L: Estimation of decision consistency and accuracy.
Appendix M: MC/G Standards Overview.
About the Authors.
Edited by.
Edited by.
Copyright page.
Chapter 2 Reshaping teaching policy, preparation, and practice: Influences of the national board for professional teaching standards.
Chapter 3 The design architecture of NBPTS certification assessments.
Chapter 4 Validating the specification of standards for teaching: Applications to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards' Assessments.
Chapter 5 The role of subject-matter knowledge in teacher assessment.
Chapter 6 Developing a National Science Assessment for teacher certification: Practical lessons learned.
Chapter 7 The evolution of the scoring system for NBPTS assessments.
Chapter 8 Setting performance standards for National Board assessments: A reprise on research and development.
Chapter 9 Reliability and NBPTS assessments.
Chapter 10 A critical review of the validity research agenda of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards at the end of its first decade.
Chapter 11 Identifying accomplished teachers: A validation study.
Chapter 12 A validity study of the certification system of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Chapter 13 Effects of the National Board for professional teaching standards certification process on teachers' perspectives and practices.
Chapter 14 Providing feedback to teacher candidates for National Board certification: A study of teacher preferences and learning.
Chapter 15 The National Board for professional teaching standards: An indispensable reform in American education.
Chapter 16 Can professional certification for teachers reshape teaching as a career? Implementing change in the U.S..
List of Appendix.
List of Contributors.
Foreword.
Appendix A: Full text of the directions for the EA/ELA portfolio task.
Appendix B: Full Specifications of the EA/ELA assessment centre.
Appendix C: Overall assessment design for EA/ELA.
Appendix D: Overview of portfolio requirements and assessment centre specifications for one of the newly developed EA/ELA next generation assessments.
Appendix E: Example of portfolio task for next generation EA/ELA assessment.
Appendix F: Portfolio assessor training materials list.
Appendix G: Sample Rubric for the Next Generation EA/ELA Assessment.
Appendix H: EA/ELA Language Study Sample Assessment Centre Task, Essential Features, and Scoring Rubric.
Appendix I : Procedures and Instructions for Weighting Entries and Exercises.
Appendix J: Reliability estimation attributable to assessors.
Appendix K: Reliability estimation attributable to exercises.
Appendix L: Estimation of decision consistency and accuracy.
Appendix M: MC/G Standards Overview.
About the Authors.
Edited by.
Edited by.
Copyright page.