This document presents proceedings of a 1976 conference on the assessment of teaching competence in special education teachers. The concerns identified for discussion were: (1) instruments for assessing interpersonal competencies in preservice special education students; (2) instruments for assessing teaching competencies in noninterpersonal areas; (3) ways and means of insuring reliability and validity in competency assessment; and (4) designing systems for managing competency assessment and resulting data. The document presents, for each of these four objectives, a resource paper presented by a conference speaker, transcript of the conference session devoted to the paper, and a reply to the content of the paper. (MJB)