NJEA continues to offer leadership in the area of professional evaluation by presenting guidelines for action to its affiliates. Also lists 33 specific guidelines for local teacher evaluation procedures. (Editor/RK)

Cites court decisions which point out the need for fair evaluation systems if personnel are to enjoy due process and school boards are to be less vulnerable to attacks in courts of law. (Author/MF)

Investigations into the legal validity of the content and procedures proposed in the Teacher Performance Assessment Instruments (TPAI) and allied materials for use in certifying Georgia's beginning teachers are reported. TPAI was designed to determine how well teachers can demonstrate certain minimum teaching skills considered essential to…

The article describes the assessment procedure (statementing) to identify and plan for children with special educational needs in England and Wales as required by the Education Act of 1981 and the Education (Special Educational Needs) Regulations of 1983. The increased responsibilities of Local Education Authorities are outlined. (Author/DB)

This report provides guidelines for Client Assistance Programs (CAPs), established to assist applicants and clients of programs and facilities funded under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This report developed out of a study to provide information to increase cooperative approaches of benefit to both programs and clients and to create training…

The concept of "tenure," with all its clumsy and confusing burden of historic and current misinterpretation, will probably soon disappear. However, what tenure laws intended, and have failed to do, will almost surely be preserved in other forms of administrative procedure. To be effective, administrative procedures must be (1) clear and detailed,…

Intended for self evaluation and improvement of school psychological services, the document lists competencies and standards for psychological assessment, intervention, and followup of children with suspected handicapping conditions. The first section presents a flow chart and a list of standards for seven competencies: referral; definition of…

This article provides a detailed survey of the procedural rights afforded by the six regional accrediting agencies to colleges and universities facing the denial or withdrawal of accreditation. It asserts that additional procedural safeguards should be provided to institutions to ensure that accreditation decisions are not made in an arbitrary or…

This article presents a documentation system that principals can use in the teacher evaluation process to help improve a teacher's performance or, if necessary, to present at a hearing to support a recommendation for termination. The documentation involves the use of several types of memoranda: (1) memoranda to the principal's file (for less…

Lack of independent review process in professional schools and refusal of courts to review errors not resulting from arbitrariness, caprice, or bad faith leave student and societal interests in accurate grading inadequately protected. (Journal availability: University of the Pacific, 3201 Donner Way, Sacramento, CA 95817.) (MSE)

This discussion of the legal considerations and safeguards concerning the assessment of students at risk for school failure focuses on procedural safeguards and best practices for assessing at-risk students at the prereferral intervention stage and the formal assessment stage, and considers the assessment of educational results. (DB)

The program Performance Evaluation for Non-Teaching Professionals at the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome provides periodic assessments as required by institutional policy. The system is intended to establish a standard for judging quality of an employee's work and a rational and uniform basis for appraising…

The report examines due process protections and requirements in evaluation as mandated by P.O. 94-142 (The Education for All Handicapped Children Act) and Maryland special education Bylaw. A checklist guide for Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) personnel to ensure protection in evaluation is provided. Self check guidelines touch on 16…

This speech first presents an overview of the problems in and the promises of teacher and administrator job performance evaluation. The author contends that a lack of attention to the evaluation process, faulty instruments, poorly defined performance criteria, and the lack of participation involvement present the major difficulties in evaluation…

The guide is a resource manual for training hearing officers to conduct impartial due process proceedings. The guide contains two sections - the first explores planning, conducting, and evaluating the workshop. The second contains appendixes with the following titles: "Simulation I - Private vs. Public School Placement Issue"; "Simulation II -…