Performance assessment and renewing teacher education: the possibilities of the NBPTS standards.(National Board for Professional Teaching Standards)

In these times, individual of the most oft-expressed statements about teaching is that nothing is more central to learner learning than the quality of the teacher. This observation relies heavily upon the research of Ferguson (1998) a public policy researcher. Ferguson lay the foundation of that the quality of the teacher could account for a significant amount of variance in scholar achievement. However, Ferguson's work relies heavily upon the assumption that teaching is a scientific enterprise that can be weighed and measured rather than an art that simply can be learned--a debate that has consum the