This article presents the validity bias review feedback and outcomes of new performance-based assessments to evaluate candidates seeking principal licensure. Until now, there has been little empirical work on performance assessment for principal licensure. One state recently developed a multi-task performance assessment for leaders and has…

In 2004 the General Assembly of the State of Ohio (USA) enacted Senate Bill 2, which created the Educator Standards Board "to develop and recommend to the state board of education standards for entering and continuing in the teaching and principalship professions". Since that time the Ohio Department of Education has established a…

In 1998, the California legislature passed Senate Bill SB 2042 which replaced the previous teacher certification legislation. The new law required that all elementary and secondary teacher certification programs in the State of California align their programs with new teaching standards. These standards included Teacher Performance Expectations…

This article examines the types of regulation faced by schools offering off-campus programs outside their "home" state of operation. Specifically, the process of approval that an off-campus program on a military base must go through is illustrated. (CT)

Idaho is one of eight states to offer teacher certification in dance. In 1975, committees were appointed to revise Idaho's certification standards. A progressive certification program was developed. Program approval is granted by a state accreditation team, based on the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification…

Examines the national status of community college program approval procedures as revealed by a survey of community college coordinators in 42 states, and presents an analysis of attitudes of chief academic officers in New Jersey where the question of program approval and regionalization is being investigated. (AYC)