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It is assessed through four components, not one exam. Part of your evidence goes through the ePortfolio, the National Board's electronic portfolio submission system, and the online assessment is delivered by Pearson VUE at locations across the United States. Certificate-specific standards and component instructions are published in the candidate resources.

For the online assessment portion, yes. The National Board has engaged Pearson VUE to deliver the online assessment of National Board Certification at locations across the United States. Portfolio materials, by contrast, are compiled and submitted electronically through ePortfolio rather than shipped or handed in on site.

National Board Certification is a standards-based assessment. Your score reflects the degree to which assessors were able to locate clear, consistent, and convincing evidence that you met the National Board Standards specific to your certificate field. That wording matters: the burden is on the evidence you supply, not on general reputation or years of service.

The National Board's certification rate is based on the total number of National Board candidates who received a certification decision after receiving scores on all four of the assessment's components. Candidates who never complete all four components are not part of that calculation, so finishing every component matters if you want your result counted.

Begin with the certificate-specific standards and the component overviews in the candidate resources, because every component is judged against those standards. Then choose the component whose evidence you can document most easily from current practice, so early work produces usable artifacts rather than a rewrite later.

Thin or inconsistent evidence. Because scoring asks whether assessors could locate clear, consistent, and convincing evidence of the standards, vague descriptions, missing context about student learning, or claims without supporting artifacts are the usual failure mode. Write so a reviewer who has never met you can see the standard being met.

The first-time and returning candidate resources page includes certificate-specific standards, overviews of the certification components, component instructions, and important policy and procedure documents. Read those policy documents before you build anything, since they govern what may be submitted and how.

NBPTS maintains a separate Maintenance of Certification process, with its own candidate resources and a set of frequently asked questions covering that process. The source material does not state a validity period, so check the Maintenance of Certification resources directly for the requirements that apply to you.

NBPTS states that 146,000+ teachers have achieved National Board Certification. The organization also describes itself as committed to expanding access to National Board Certification so that every student has the opportunity to learn from an accomplished, Board-certified teacher.