Better-qualified people are being attracted to the teaching profession, according to a report by the Educational Testing Service.

Future teachers who took the state teacher licensing tests from the years 2002 to 2005 scored higher on their SAT’s while in high school and also obtained better grades while in college than teachers who took the exams in the mid 1990’s.

The researcher who led the study, Drew Gitomer, stated ”We’re seeing a pretty big jump in qualifications.”

Conclusions by Gitomer and his colleagues were based on the comparisons of the academic profiles of 153,000 aspiring teachers from 20 states who took licensing exams from 2002 to 2005, with the profiles of about 140,000 teachers from the same states who took the licensing exams from 1994 to 1997.

The Princeton, N.J. testing service produces a series of teacher licensing exams that appraise academic competency in more than 100 subject areas.

This is good news for our kids!

This entry was posted on Friday, December 14th, 2007 at 3:54 pm and is filed under Parents, Teachers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.