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

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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.

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  1. UR2 participated only in Phase II by providing lists of National Board certified teachers and agreeing to let the researchers invite these teachers to participate. The district was not able to provide the database of student achievement linked to teacher assignment that was needed to identify teachers with high and low student achievement results. Thus, when the report refers to three school districts, UR2 is not included.

  2. See note above regarding the inclusion of data from three school districts rather than four in Phase I of the study.

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  1. School of Education, The College of William and Mary, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA, 23187-8795, USA

    James H. Stronge

  2. The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA

    Thomas J. Ward

  3. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Pamela D. Tucker

  4. Teacher Quality Resources, LLC, Williamsburg, VA, USA

    Jennifer L. Hindman

  5. SERVE, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Wendy McColsky

  6. Scotland County Public Schools, Laurinburg, NC, USA

    Barbara Howard

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Authors’ Note: An earlier version of this paper was presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada, April 12, 2005.

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Stronge, J.H., Ward, T.J., Tucker, P.D. et al. National Board Certified Teachers and Non-National Board Certified Teachers: Is There a Difference in Teacher Effectiveness and Student Achievement?. J Pers Eval Educ 20, 185–210 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11092-008-9052-0

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