Assessing teachers for professional certification : the first decade of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards / edited by Lawrence Ingvarson, John Hattie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ingvarson, Lawrence.

Hattie, John.

Series:

Advances in program evaluation 1474-7863 ; v. 11.

Advances in program evaluation, 1474-7863 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (U.S.).

Teachers--Rating of--United States.

Teachers.

Teachers--Rating of.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxi, 610 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : JAI/Elsevier, 2008.

Summary:

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 Board's 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 Board's 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 Board's 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.

Contents:

Section 1 Developing Standards and Performance Assessments for Professional Certification

Chapter 2 Reshaping Teaching Policy, Preparation, and Practice: Influences of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards / Linda Darling-Hammond 25

Chapter 3 The Design Architecture of Nbpts Certification Assessments / Mari Pearlman 55

Chapter 4 Validating the Specification of Standards for Teaching: Applications to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards' Assessments / John Hattie 93

Chapter 5 The Role of Subject-Matter Knowledge in Teacher Assessment / Sam Wineburg 113

Chapter 6 Developing a National Science Assessment for Teacher Certification: Practical Lessons Learned / Steven A. Schneider, Kirsten R. Daehler, Kristin Hershbell, Jody McCarthy, Jerome Shaw, Guillermo Solano-Flores 139

Section 2 Assessing Teacher Performance

Chapter 7 The Evolution of the Scoring System for Nbpts Assessments / Mari Pearlman 177

Chapter 8 Setting Performance Standards for National Board Assessments: A Reprise on Research and Development / Richard M. Jaeger 211

Chapter 9 Reliability and Nbpts Assessments / Drew Gitomer 231

Section 3 Validity Issues Related to Nbpts Certification

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 / Pamela A. Moss 257

Chapter 11 Identifying Accomplished Teachers: A Validation Study / John Hattie, Janet Clinton 313

Chapter 12 A Validity Study of the Certification System of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards / Tracy W. Smith, Wanda K. Baker, John Hattie, Lloyd Bond 345

Section 4 Effects of Nbpts Certification

Chapter 13 Effects of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Process on Teachers' Perspectives and Practices / Kenneth Wolf, Grace Taylor 381

Chapter 14 Providing Feedback to Teacher Candidates for National Board Certification: A Study of Teacher Preferences and Learning / Kenneth Wolf, Alan Davis, Hilda Borko 413

Section 5 The Nbpts and the Future

Chapter 15 The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: An Indispensable Reform in American Education / Gary Sykes 439

Chapter 16 Can Professional Certification for Teachers Reshape Teaching as a Career? Implementing Change in the U.S. / Susan Moore Johnson 461.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780762310555

0762310553

OCLC:

180472453