National Board Certification as Professional Development: What are Teachers Learning?

Creator

David Lustick
Gary Sykes

Files

Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

February 2006

Abstract

This study investigated the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards’ (NBPTS) assessment process in order to identify, quantify, and substantiate learning outcomes from the participants. One hundred and twenty candidates for the Adolescent and Young Adult Science (AYA Science) Certificate were studied over a two-year period using the recurrent institutional cycle research design. This quasi-experimental methodology allowed for the collection of both cross-sectional and longitudinal data insuring a good measure of internal validity regarding observed changes between individual and across group means. Transcripts of structured interviews with each teacher were scored by multiple assessors according to the 13 standards of NBPTS’ framework for accomplished science teaching. These scores provided the quantitative evidence of teacher learning in this study. Significant pre-intervention to post-intervention changes to these individual and group means are reported as learning outcomes from the assessment process.

Keywords

Teachers--Training of, Career development, Teachers--Certification, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (U.S.), Science--Study and teaching

Extent

46

Volume

14

Issue

5

Language

English; Spanish

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Note

Citation: Lustick, D., & Sykes, G. (2006). National board certification as professional development: What are teachers learning? Education Policy Analysis Archives, 14(5). Retrieved [date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v14n5/.

Identifier

E11-00478

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Lustick, David and Sykes, Gary, "National Board Certification as Professional Development: What are Teachers Learning?" (2006). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 192.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/192