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Project Title:
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Evaluation of the Impact of Teacher Certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
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PIN:
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BOTA-I-04-02-A
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Major Unit:
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Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
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Sub Unit:
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Board on Testing and Assessment
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RSO:
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Elliott, Stuart
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Education
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Project Scope
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The project will respond to a Congressional mandate for an independent
evaluation of the impact of teacher certification by the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) that uses an evaluation framework that
can be applied to other approaches for advanced teacher certification. The
evaluation will include consideration of 1) the cost-effectiveness of NBPTS
certification as a method of improving teacher quality and 2) the extent to
which NBPTS certification makes a difference in student academic achievement.
The committee will develop a rigorous conceptual and methodological framework
for evaluating the impact of NBPTS certification, conduct a review of the
existing research literature and potentially relevant extant data sources, and
carry out additional analyses that can extend existing work to address
policy-relevant questions with a limited level of additional data collection.
To the extent that the incremental analyses that are practical within the scope
of the current project are inadequate to answer the questions posed by the
Congressional mandate, the committee will describe the limitations of the
answers that it can provide and recommend designs for additional future studies
that could provide more adequate answers to those questions.
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
The approximate starting date for the project is 8/10/2005
A Final Report will be issued at the end of the project in approximately 36
months
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Project Duration:
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36 months
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