The purpose of this paper is to trace the development of the idea of measurement of pupil growth and achievement as a criterion of teacher effectiveness through the scholarly writings of A. S. Barr (1892-1962). The search for the criterion of teacher efficiency, and later effectiveness, was the professional concern that guided Barr's research for…

Examined is the critical issue of the quality of teaching and learning in postsecondary education. Written by nine experts in the evaluation of instruction, the book asks the questions: Should university teachers be evaluated?; If so, with what goals in mind and by what methods should they be judged?; What are the effects of teacher evaluation on…

The Teacher Career and Promotion Study investigated the disproportionately small number of women holding elementary school senior teaching positions in New Zealand. Statistics were gathered from regional education board offices on applications and assessments of male and female teachers from 1975 to 1979. To be considered for a senior teaching…

This document provides the Behavioral Checklist of Infant/Toddler Care-Provider Competencies which was developed to evaluate competencies of care-providers as well as to serve as an assessment tool for self-evaluation. Information which met the criteria of sound child development principles and operations critical to child care was incorporated…

This paper begins with summaries of research on individual characteristics of effective administrators and on the effectiveness of administrator evaluation. The paper then presents materials, forms, and questionnaires used in the Calgary (Alberta) public schools administrative evaluation process. The evaluation process includes a personal…

This investigation is part of a larger program conducted by a university department of curriculum and an instruction research team investigating 400 variables affecting learner achievement, teacher effectiveness, and teacher qualifications. This part of the study examines the variables of student teachers' over-all grade point average, average in…

There is increasing interest in reviewing teacher hiring procedures in order to answer society's demands that students should be accountable for learning basic skills and teachers should be accountable for proving their general and specific content knowledge. There is a trend toward requiring teachers to pass a state board examination proving…

A preschool environment inventory was developed to provide a method for characterizing the school environment of children in Head Start and other preschool programs. The inventory summarizes the most salient features of a preschool environment and describes these dimensions for measurement with ordinal scales. Consisteing of 44 scales and 23 check…

This paper reports the problems involved in measuring the extent to which the practice in program sites matches model theory formulated in Head Start Planned Variation. The main focus in studying program implementation is the question of internal validity, whether the children in the HSPV programs actually receive the treatment being evaluated.…

We should no longer be wondering if we should have performance appraisal, rather we should be researching the elements necessary for it to be successfully implemented and to ensure that we receive maximum benefits for improved learning for our students. Performance appraisal can be defined as "a positive, systematic, individualized due…

This paper argues that to be appropriate the evaluation of teaching must occur under circumstances entirely free of the limitations which inferential statistics necessarily impose on teaching. Regardless of whether the statistical, design, and treatment assumptions required for the valid use of inferential statistics in education are met,…

This is a summary report on the development and implementation of the Child Development Associate Consortium's Credential Award System (CAS). The CAS has as its purpose the assessment of the performance of child care workers and the granting of Child Development Associate (CDA) credentials to those who demonstrate competence in caring for…

Educational accountability is examined from the viewpoint of (1) history--the development of the concept from that of cost accounting to one of the educator's responsibility to parents and taxpayers; (2) new requirements of the Ohio state government for yearly reports on student skills in various subject areas according to sex, race, size of…

Some of the problems in evaluating the teaching effectiveness of university nursing teachers are discussed. The importance of clinical nursing experience to successful teaching weighs most heavily with some educators but other attributes are also necessary to determine teaching quality and evaluation criteria. (MF)

Discusses evaluation problems of child care staff. Reviews the use of performance statements as an objective and concrete evaluation system. (RJC)