Disagreement about what constitutes good teaching persists because people's perceptions of education and of teaching are often bound up in their ideologies and undisclosed prejudices. Concentration on the form of the educational enterprise--on what is universal, as opposed to subjective--is urged. Implications for supervisors and for evaluation of…

Discussion of performance appraisal in nonprofit organizations and the difficulties involved in obtaining accurate job feedback examines four types of appraisal: behavioralism; minimal model; heuristic knowledge; and tacit information from in-house experimentation. Conclusions are drawn about the usefulness of these approaches and a suggestion for…