NBPTS MC Math

It is a professional certification for teachers, described by the National Board as the highest and most respected certification a teacher may obtain. It is a standards-based assessment: assessors look for clear, consistent, and convincing evidence that you meet the National Board Standards specific to your certificate field.

Four. The National Board states that its certification rate is based on the total number of candidates who received a certification decision after receiving scores on all four of the assessment's components, so a decision depends on being scored across the full set rather than on any single piece of evidence.

The National Board has engaged Pearson VUE to deliver the online assessment of National Board Certification at locations across the United States. Before your appointment, review the assessment center resources, including certificate-specific assessment instructions and scoring rubrics, the tutorials and practice materials, and the assessment center policy and guidelines.

Through ePortfolio, the National Board's electronic portfolio submission system, which the Board says simplifies and enhances the way candidates compile and submit materials for evaluation. Use the first-time and returning candidate resources page for certificate-specific standards, component overviews, component instructions, and policy and procedure documents.

No. The National Board advises candidates to keep in mind that they must demonstrate knowledge of developmentally appropriate content necessary for teaching across the full age range of the chosen certificate area. For a mathematics certificate, prepare across the whole grade span, including how concepts build from earlier to later grades.

Start with the standards for your certificate field, since scoring is judged against them. Then read the component overviews and instructions, then the certificate-specific assessment instructions and scoring rubrics for the assessment center component. Build evidence around the standards rather than around activities you happen to enjoy teaching.

On evidence, not effort or volume. The Board explains that 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. Strong submissions make that evidence easy to find.

Submitting description without analysis, or material that does not map onto the specific standards for the certificate field. Since assessors must locate clear, consistent, and convincing evidence, vague narrative and unexplained artifacts force them to infer connections that may not be credited.

Use the National Board's own candidate resources and candidate FAQs, linked from its certification pages, plus the policy and procedure documents and assessment center policy and guidelines. Those official pages are the authoritative source for requirements, and they change over time, so check them directly rather than relying on summaries.