Operative criteria used by administrators when recommending teachers for promotion were identified. From the criteria elicited in testing, similar categories emerged with shifts in the priority of decision power. The study extended personal construct theory into administrative practice to demonstrate the effect of personal realization of operative…

Teacher growth is an on-going, developmental process that continues through the teacher's career. Four phases to full professional development are explored in this article. Aspects of each phase are described, and competencies that should serve as a foundation for a developmental model are discussed. (DF)

Proposals for merit pay and for master-teacher and career-ladder systems abound, but none will work without effective means of teacher evaluation. Evaluation methods used to back up merit pay programs in Ladue, Missouri, and in a suburb of Seattle, Washington, and being planned for Charlotte, North Carolina, are briefly described. (PP)

The topic of merit increase in salary and related interests are discussed by a professor of management studies. A merit rating activity analysis is proposed that includes (1) research publications, (2) research in progress, (3) teaching, (4) community service, and (5) university service. (Editor/LBH)

Determines that the factor structure of the instructional model measured by the Michigan State University Student Instructional Rating System (SIRS) form could be replicated by an adapted version of the SIRS instrument at Florida State University. (Author)

A refutation of the two most common objections to the use of student evaluations in judging teacher performance: that the student cannot recognize good teaching and that student evaluations are biased by grades and expectations. (CH)

"Students in a college course were given written criteria, divided into teams, and asked to score their own essay examination... The results support the generalization that subjective scoring standards are readily communicable. (Author)

Identifies how personnel officers in an elementary school district discriminate among applicants for teaching positions, and checks if the selection policies of the officers are likely to result in the hiring of teachers who perform well in the classroom. (DM)

Describes approaches to inservice evaluation of early childhood teachers, and provides a rationale and guides for conducting teacher evaluations. A sample form for inservice evaluation is included. (RH)

Literature on assessment in Australian tertiary institutions during the past five years is examined in light of: who and what are assessed and in what way and for what purpose assessments are made. Conferences on assessment are noted and a 50-item bibliography is included. (LC)

It is now recognized that there are almost as many learning styles as there are learners. Today's teacher is faced with the difficult task of developing a multidimensional system to evaluate his teaching effectiveness. (Editor)

Assesses the use of seven common faculty evaluation methods (teacher interviews, competency tests, student evaluation, student achievement, classroom observation, peer review, and self-evaluation) for English-as-a-Second-Language teachers. A developmental orientation to evaluation is outlined that considers different stages of teaching careers and…

Peer evaluators and multiple data sources are effective elements of Tennessee's career ladder system, but the assessment of teaching remains far from simple. (Author/TE)

Presents a portfolio assessment model that encourages teachers' professional growth while helping them evaluate their subject-matter knowledge; intellectual and problem-solving abilities; pedagogical skills; curriculum knowledge, insight, and skill; knowledge of learners and learning; and attitudes and dispositions. States that when teachers…

Survey of 91 Washington school districts found 153 teachers were placed on probation during 1984-87; of these, 40% were first-year teachers, 69% dismissed, retired, or resigned. Evaluated behaviors that proved hardest for teachers to remedy were handling of student discipline, classroom management. Deficiency in one of eight areas could lead to…