We have committed ourselves to a three-year research agenda focusing on three themes:

<> candidates' perceptions of National Board Certification as reward or learning process;

<> National Board Certification as impacting teachers before, during and after completion of the process; and

<> evidence of teacher change through student work.

Ultimately this study will examine how student work reflects the progress that teachers make toward National Board Certification. For us, examination of student work is quite different from examining test scores. We plan to use the Structure of the Observed Learning Objectives (SOLO) taxonomy to analyze student work for surface and deep levels of student understanding and learning.

Central to our efforts is our desire for "the collective voice of teachers to show the complexity of teaching."

Our commitment to this research extends to the training of future educational researchers who we anticipate will continue this important work by conducting longitudinal studies which track accomplished teachers and their students' achievement across time.

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View our research questions.

View our theoretical framework and data collection methods.

Our general email address is nbrt@coe.uga.edu or you may contact individual member of the research team.

Follow these links to the National Board Site or to other sites devoted to research on the NB process.