Lawrence Ingvarson

Assessing Teachers for Professional Certification: The First Decade of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards - Advances in Program Evaluation Lawrence Ingvarson

Marc Notes: An examination of the National Board for Professional Teaching standards (NBPTS) Table of Contents: List of Appendix -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction / Lawrence Ingvarson, John Hattie -- Section 1. Developing Standards and Performance Assessments for Professional Certification -- Chapter 2. Reshaping Teaching Policy, Preparation, and Practice: Influences of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards / Linda Darling-Hammond -- Chapter 3. The Design Architecture of Nbpts Certification Assessments / Mari Pearlman -- Chapter 4. Validating the Specification of Standards for Teaching: Applications to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards' Assessments / John Hattie -- Chapter 5. The Role of Subject-Matter Knowledge in Teacher Assessment / Sam Wineburg -- Chapter 6. Developing a National Science Assessment for Teacher Certification: Practical Lessons Learned / Steven A. Schneider, Kirsten R. Daehler, Kristin Hershbell, Jody McCarthy, Jerome Shaw, Guillermo Solano-Flores -- Section 2. Assessing Teacher Performance -- Chapter 7. The Evolution of the Scoring System for Nbpts Assessments / Mari Pearlman -- Chapter 8. Setting Performance Standards for National Board Assessments: A Reprise on Research and Development / Richard M. Jaeger -- Chapter 9. Reliability and Nbpts Assessments / Drew Gitomer -- Section 3. Validity Issues Related to Nbpts Certification -- Chapter 10. A Critical Review of the Validity Research Agenda of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards at the end of its First Decade / Pamela A. Moss -- Chapter 11. Identifying Accomplished Teachers: A Validation Study / John Hattie, Janet Clinton -- Chapter 12. A Validity Study of the Certification System of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards / Tracy W. Smith, Wanda K. Baker, John Hattie, Lloyd Bond -- Section 4. Effects of Nbpts Certification -- Chapter 13. Effects of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Process on Teachers' Perspectives and Practices / Kenneth Wolf, Grace Taylor -- Chapter 14. Providing Feedback to Teacher Candidates for National Board Certification: A Study of Teacher Preferences and Learning / Kenneth Wolf, Alan Davis, Hilda Borko -- Section 5. The Nbpts and the Future -- Chapter 15. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: An Indispensable Reform in American Education / Gary Sykes -- Chapter 16. Can Professional Certification for Teachers Reshape Teaching as a Career? Implementing Change in the U. S. / Susan Moore Johnson -- Appendix -- About the Authors. Publisher Marketing: The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) in the USA is the most ambitious and successful attempt by any country to establish a certification system for recognizing and rewarding teachers who reach high professional standards. This book focuses on The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS).

Contributor Bio:  Hattie, John Dr. John Hattie has been Professor of Education and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia, since March 2011. He was previously Professor of Education at the University of Auckland. His research interests are based on applying measurement models to education problems. He is president of the International Test Commission, served as advisor to various Ministers, chaired the NZ performance based research fund, and in the last Queens Birthday awards was made Order of Merit for New Zealand for services to education. He is a cricket umpire and coach, enjoys being a Dad to his young men, besotted with his dogs, and moved with his wife as she attained a promotion to Melbourne. Learn more about his research at www.corwin.com/visiblelearning.