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Committee on Evaluation of Teacher Certification by the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
Statement of Task
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.
MEMBERSHIP:
Milton D. Hakel (Chair), Department of Pyschology, Bowling Green State University, OH
Julian Betts, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Mark Dynarski, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., NJ
Adam Gamoran, Department Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Jane Hannaway, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC
Richard Ingersoll, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Michael T. Kane, National Conference of Bar Examiners, Madison, WI
Deirdre J. Knapp, Human Resources Research Organization, Alexandria, VA
Susanna Loeb, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, CA
James (Torch) H. Lytle, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
C. Ford Morishita, Clackamas High School, Clackamas, OR
Lynn W. Paine, College of Education, Michigan State University
Neil J. Smelser, (Emeritus), University of California, Berkeley
Brian Stecher, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Ana Maria Villegas, College of Education and Human Services, Montclair State University, NJ
Dorothy Y. White, Department of Mathematics Education, University of Georgia
Karen K. Wixson, The School of Education, University of Michigan
The National Academies
Center for Education – 11th Floor
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
Tel: 202-334-2353
Fax: 202-334-1294
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