To ensure their teaching quality, it is important for student teachers to undertake self reflection on their teaching performance after supervised teaching sessions. With the goal of sharpening the teaching competence of student teachers, a dual function system that uses web based and video based technologies is being developed to facilitate self…

The Computerized Observation System (COS) is a software program which an observer can use with a portable microcomputer to document preservice and inservice teacher performance. Specific observable behavior such as appropriate questions and responses shown to increase student achievement are recorded as Low Inference Observation Measures. Time on…

This research and development work was conducted under a grant which stipulated the development of: (1) training materials for teacher evaluation; (2) a performance measurement system; and (3) a prototype of training materials to remediate teacher deficiencies. Also required was an analysis of the Florida Generic Competencies, a study of district…

Faculty note that: (1) The term accountability lacks common accepted usage. (2) Demands for accountability often mean loss of autonomy. (3) Accountability systems have not been developed to gain acceptance. (4) Accountability requires one to consider education as a quantitative commodity and not an intellectual experience. (Author/PG)

The focus of this study was to determine the weight of the research component in faculty performance evaluation. (Author/PG)

This research review contains summary and synthesis of 360 references selected from over 900 in 1) Education Index, 2) Psychological Abstracts, and 3) some 40 reviews and bibliographies, 28 of which were selected for inclusion in the 392-item bibliography at the end of this review. Principal findings of the cited quantitative research studies are…

The clinical supervision cycle is divided into various segments (preobservation cycle, observation, postobservation analysis, postobservation conference, postobservation conference analysis), and the research needs for each of these stages is detailed. The need for evaluating the cycle in terms of student outcomes is stressed. (MJB)

The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher evaluation techniques from several perspectives, sources of data, and judges. The study tried to determine relationships by comparing the multiple lines of evidence in one school district. (RB)

Considers the similarities between teaching and directing and offers suggestions for evaluating play directors. (PD)

Discusses the difficulties inherent in evaluating the director's work since it combines teaching and artistic aspects. (PD)

The Florida Performance Measurement System is probably the most extensive attempt in recent years to translate research on teaching into a practical form for use in training, evaluating, and rewarding teachers. However, the FPMS reflects no sense of the values inherent in teaching and misses all the joy of teaching. (MT)

Presents the results of a teacher evaluation research project in Australia. (LN)