A discussion of increasing productivity in post secondary education involves the improvement of the assessment of educational outcome with respect to range of attributes measured and reliability and validity, and the improvement of the quality and number of measures used to assess educational outcome. (Author/AM)

Discusses current issues in measuring library effectiveness, including rapid technological changes and increasing obsolescence in librarians' competencies; increased pressure for accountability; tools to help libraries become what they determine they should be rather than conforming to national standards; and how to determine the validity and…

This paper presents a primer on building a scientifically oriented teacher evaluation instrument. It stresses the importance of accurate measures and accepts the presupposition that scientific approaches provide the most accurate measures of student teacher performance. The paper discusses the scientific concepts of validity and reliability, and…