ation framework questions, sought out additional data and
analyses, and used this body of information to evaluate the
NBPTS. This report describes the committee’s evaluation
framework and presents our evaluation of the national board’s
program. Chapter 2 describes both the evaluation framework and
its rationale and the kinds of published research, other data,
and other sources of information we examined. An overview of the
context in which the national board was developed and the
program’s history is presented in Chapter 3, and Chapter 4
describes the board, its operations, and the structure and
content of the current certification process. The committee’s
evaluation of the NBPTS is presented in Chapters 5 through 11.
In Chapter 5 the psychometric characteristics of the assessment
and the available evidence of its psychometric quality are
described. Chapter 6 discusses the available data regarding
participation in the national board certification process across
the states and some of the factors that may infl