No Link Seen Between NBPTS Certification, Student Achievement

Published Jul 6, 2006

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Nationally certified teachers do not necessarily produce greater student success in the classroom, a study of more than 300 middle-school teachers in North Carolina concludes.

Funded by a grant from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards--the organization that evaluates teachers for national certification--the study was conducted by two professors of education at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

It found that students of board-certified teachers performed slightly better than the students of non-board-certified teachers, but that the differences were minor. Researchers examined three school districts in North Carolina and also conducted in-class evaluations for both board-certified and other teachers.

http://www.wm.edu/education/Teacher%20Effectiveness.pdf