National Board Certified Teachers and Non-National Board Certified Teachers: Is There a Difference in Teacher Effectiveness and Student Achievement?

摘要

The study comparing National Board certified teachers (NBCTs) with their non-Board certified colleagues was conducted using four North Carolina school districts. In Phase I, descriptive results from the development of Teacher Achievement Indices using hierarchical linear modeling based on student achievement results are reported for 307 5th grade teachers in three districts. In Phase II, 53 teachers from four districts participated in data collection consisting of interviews, surveys, artifact collection, and classroom observations. The results indicated that NBCTs scored higher on selected pre-instructional and dispositional variables. However, NBCTs were indistinguishable from non-Board certified teachers on a variety of in-classroom variables.