This report to the Arizona Joint Legislative Committee on Career Ladders Task Force outlines an evaluation system for assessing teacher and administrator performance in a career ladder program. Major goals for the program are: (1) to evaluate, place and reward teachers based on performance criteria, which include properly recognized expansion of…

Northern Arizona University's Arizona Career Ladder Research & Evaluation Project for teachers implements a procedure for rewarding teachers based on performance levels rather than on years of teaching experience and college credits. Research data is collected each spring, analyzed and fed back to the districts for improvement of key program…

The focus-group interview format was used to investigate the existence, interrelationship, perceived strengths, and indicators of insufficiency in the implementation of the Career Ladders (CL) teacher-incentive program in a rural Arizona school district. Two interviews were planned for each of the following groups: school board members; CL…