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9 The Impact of Certification on Teachers' Career Paths
9 The Impact of Certification on Teachers' Career Paths
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Experienced teachers often find that the only way to advance in their careers is to move out of the classroom and become administrators or to leave teaching entirely. Teaching has also been less likely to attract the most successful students from top undergraduate programs, in part because of comparatively low pay scales, lower prestige, and flat career trajectories (National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 2003)
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Does it encourage teacher mobility in ways that are beneficial for lower performing students or in ways that contribute to inequities -- for example, do board-certified teachers move out of urban areas to wealthy suburban districts? Our literature review quickly revealed there are very few studies that have examined the job transitions and career changes teachers make after becoming board certified.
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challenges in Studying Teachers' Career Paths One way to examine teachers' career path decisions is to simply ask them about the decisions they have made and the reasons for them. Surveys and interviews can be used for this, although obtaining an adequate sample and following teachers over time can be an arduous undertaking.
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Thus, as of this writing, the SASS database cannot be used to compare attrition or retention rates for board-certified and nonboard-certified teachers. Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study A second national data collection effort by NCES, the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study of 1993 (B&B 93:03)
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The data set does not contain any information about the schools in which teachers were employed or the types of teaching assignments they held. Thus, this data set cannot be used to study teacher mobility at the national level.
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. Despite these differences between the two data sets, we used the B&B 93:03 to examine the attrition rates between 1993 and 2003 for board Chapter 6 provides additional details about the NBPTS data set that we used for these analyses.
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. It is important to point out that these analyses were descriptive in nature and do not allow us to conclude that obtaining board certification TABLE 9-2 Teacher Attrition Rates by 2003 National BoardCertification Status Total Attrition Stayers Leavers Teachers Rate Board-Certified Teachers: Started initial teaching job between 1993 and 1995 6,073 2,838 8,911 31.8% Started initial teaching job between 1996 and 1999 1,703 599 2,302 26.0% Nonboard-Certified Teachers: Started initial teaching job between 1993 and 1995 94,541 52,275 146,816 35.6% Started initial teaching job between 1996 and 1999 31,619 16,288 47,907 34.0% SOURCE: Perda (2007, Table 10)
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investigated the impact of board certification on the job transitions and career paths of teachers employed in North Carolina. Their primary sample included most of those who taught in the state public schools between the 1996-1997 and 1999-2000 school years, and they restricted the analyses to teachers who had at least three years of experience (and were thus eligible for board certification)
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of an individual experiencing each of the types of job transitions, after controlling for a series of teacher and school characteristics. To further mitigate selection bias, the analyses also used a quasi-experimental method -- regression-discontinuity analyses -- in the comparisons of the successful applicants with unsuccessful applicants.
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For African American teachers, the results were also generally weak, with the exception of the percentages of minority students at the schools to which board-certified teachers moved. That is, compared to unsuccessful applicants, African American board-certified teachers tended to move to schools with fewer minority students, and the differences were generally large and statistically significant.
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Comparisons of responses for successful and unsuccessful candidates would address questions about the impact of the credential on career paths. Specifically, we recommend: Recommendation 9-1: The NBPTS and other researchers should study the subsequent career choices of teachers who have applied for board certification.
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We also encourage further investigation of the impact of board certification on teachers' career choices using national data sets, such as SASS. As a first step, we recommend that NCES further investigate the problems with the question on the SASS questionnaire, which asked respondents about their board-certification status.
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