New Studies Prove Nationally Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) more Effective with Students

National Board Certified Teachers and Their Students’ Achievement, September 7, 2004. Research by Arizona State University researchers Leslie Vandevoort, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley and David Berliner shows that third, fourth, fifth, and sixth graders taught by NBCTs in 14 Arizona school districts outperformed their schoolmates on the nationwide Stanford Achievement Test 9th Edition (SAT-9) in almost 75 percent of reading, math and language arts measures.

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Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed?, March 8, 2004. Research from the University of Washington and the Urban Institute provides the first large-scale evidence that NBPTS is identifying and certifying teachers who will raise student achievement.