Thank you for your interest in serving as a member of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) scoring staff! Positions are available for scoring National Board Certification and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) assessments.

Assessors work in an office environment (or home office), evaluating National Board portfolio submissions or constructed response exercises according to rubrics that are accompanied by training exemplars drawn from the work of real National Board candidates. After reviewing benchmarks and completing practice scoring, assessors must qualify in order to begin scoring live candidate work.

National Board assessors are licensed educators who have at least three years of Pre-K through 12th grade teaching or school counseling experience. After successfully completing training, assessors score candidate responses to portfolios or constructed response exercises designed to collect standards-based evidence of accomplished teaching practice. Training and scoring take place in June and July each summer.

National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) are automatically considered to score the National Board’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) assessment, which is scored in July each year. MOC assessors may only work in their original certificate area, just as NBCTs may only apply to maintain in their original certificate area. MOC assessors may only score MOC during annual cycles when they are not submitting an MOC portfolio. However, NBCTs may score certification submissions during all cycles.

Please be aware that all National Board scoring positions require work on a fixed schedule from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in a specified time zone. Each offer letter specifies the scoring site or time zone for the appropriate component. Starting approximately February 1^st each year, you can view tentative schedules and scoring locations offered across National Board certificate areas. National Board positions are offered for specific date ranges, and scoring personnel are expected to commit to working every weekday throughout the duration of the scoring window, excepting holidays.

Main Responsibilities:

• Complete training process successfully and be approved to continue to live scoring
• Evaluate portfolio submissions or constructed response exercises in a reliable manner and score according to National Board rubrics and standards
• Complete bias-prevention training and commit to applying the scoring guide according to National Board requirements
• Commit to working the full duration of the project
• Meet rate and reliability requirements established for National Board scoring 

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.   

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, disability status, veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Eligibility

To be eligible to serve as an Assessor, Scoring Supervisor, or Trainer for National Board scoring, you must meet the education, employment, and licensure requirements described below prior to starting the application process. 

All applicants must be eligible to work in the United States, and all work must be done within the United States.

Eligibility Requirements for All Applicants
(eligible applicants must meet all of the following):

• Hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution or equivalent* 
• Possess a valid state teaching or school counseling license**
• Completed three years of full-time teaching or school counseling employment
• Not be a current or non-achieving candidate for National Board Certification

* CTE teachers without a bachelor’s degree who meet the education requirements for their state or school may apply with an explanation to HR, and HR will verify eligibility to score. For teachers who received their degree outside the United States, a Foreign Equivalency Report is required stating that they have an equivalent of at least a 4-year degree in the United States. It is each applicant’s responsibility to obtain this report. Applicants may email this report to HR if they receive an offer of employment.

** Applicants must meet the licensure requirements established by their state or school. Applicants may be eligible to become assessors without a teaching license if the facility in which they taught was approved by the state to operate as a school (e.g., private school, parochial school, school outside the United States).

Additional Eligibility Requirements for NBCTs:

National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs): You must hold a valid and unexpired certificate as an NBCT in the certificate area in which you are applying to assess. If you wish to assess in a different certificate area than the one in which you are certified, you must meet one of the experience requirements below instead.   

Additional Eligibility Requirements for Applicants Who Are Not NBCTs

(eligible applicants must meet one of the following):

If you are a New Applicant:

• You must be working (or have worked) at least half-time during the current academic school year in the certificate area you are applying to assess.

If you are a Returning/Experienced Applicant:

• You must be working (or have worked) at least half-time during the current academic school year in the certificate area you are applying to assess and
• You must have successfully completed service as a member of the National Board scoring staff. 

If you are a Retired or Reassigned Teacher:

• You must have previously successfully served as a member of the National Board scoring staff within the past three years and
• You must be within a three-year window of having worked as a Pre-K through 12th grade classroom teacher in the certificate area you are applying to assess, and
• You must have at least three (3) years of experience in the certificate area you are applying to assess.

Please note: if you previously submitted a National Board assessor application but have not served as a member of the scoring staff with Pearson, you would still remain in the "New Applicant" category and must still meet the "New Applicant" requirements in order to be considered for employment.

Other Requirements (eligible applicants must meet all of the following):

• Basic computer knowledge and skills to include, but not limited to: videoconferencing, word processing, email, instant messaging
• Confidence in learning and working with a computer-based scoring system and other applications
• Ability to work at a computer for an 8-hour day with breaks
• Access to equipment that meets bandwidth and webcam requirements if working from home
• Ability to maintain a confidential work environment 
• Ability to work collaboratively on a team