Criteria and guidelines are suggested for evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of inservice training programs for use in administrative review of staff development in state and local departments of public welfare. Inservice education is treated as an essential, integral, and continuous part of agency administration. The content of orientation and training is touched upon, together with administrative and learning factors in the choice of training methods. Structural factors, types of change and learning, criteria from curriculum planning theory are also discussed. An excerpted passage on personality development in infants is used as part of an example in testing the effectiveness of inservice training. The document includes 34 references and a bibliography. (ly)