Steps and suggestions for conducting a critique conference (a method of evaluation of teacher and student teacher performance). (JH)

This research reports the relationship between supervisory performance of eight leadership functions and group performance in 43 library work units. These eight functions can be used as a guide to future research designed to identify additional leadership functions. (Author/RK)

It appears that Thomas R. Pickering, a career foreign service officer with no science in his background, has been nominated as the new head of the Federal science bureau. This is a discussion of the past and future importance of that office. (BB)

This study investigates peer supervision. The criterion used was counselor trainees' growth in facilitative functioning. The study sought to ascertain whether the facilitative counselor trainee was also the effective peer supervisor, to provide information on evaluating peer-supervisory experience, and to shed light on the most effective…

Discusses the role of instructional leaders and suggests resources that can aid leaders in enhancing learning. (JG)

Responds to Biggs' article on the case presentation approach in clinical supervision. Notes that Biggs provides one of the few discussions explicating the tasks in case conceptualizations useful for enhancing cognitive development available in the literature. Raises concerns about Biggs' assumptions about the cognitive level of trainees and the…

Conducted survey of 47 existing counseling supervision courses to provide guidelines for counselor educators interested in designing supervision instruction for their programs. Found typical supervision course to be both theoretical and experiential, and to include discussion of a variety of supervision approaches. (Author/NB)

Examined relational consequences of supervisors' and supervisees' disagreements about supervisee's counseling sophistication, using Stoltenberg's developmental model of counselor supervision. Supervisors perceived themselves as varying their behavior with supervisees of different developmental levels, though supervisees did not see this.…

Addresses teachers' concerns generated by the Madeline Hunter clinical supervision movement sweeping over 60 percent of all Pennsylvania school districts. Although some teachers praise the model for its attention to teaching, sense of professionalism, standardization of teaching methods, and career enhancement approach, two-thirds of the teachers…

Offers and explains four visual models of deployment of instructional supervisors within the hierarchy of school districts. (SRT)

This article reports the results of a survey sent to principals of schools recognized for outstanding progress toward excellence in education for 1982-83. Results show that principals who are actively involved in instructional supervision, evaluation of teacher performance, and curricular development go hand in hand with quality schools. (CT)

Reports responses of 693 teachers to the Survey of Supervisory Practices in four rural, central Pennsylvania school districts. Finds six statistically significant factors that are related to teachers' perceptions of the helpfulness of supervison in the improvement of their classroom instruction. (NEC)

Criticizes Madeline Hunter's programs that train administrators in teacher evaluation. Asserts that Hunter allows trainers to misuse her work and that she rejects the central tenet of clinical supervision. (MD)

This article describes negative and positive aspects of the neo-traditional approach to teacher supervision, which is defined as supervision that focuses on characteristics of teaching as drawn from effective teaching research. (MT)

Reviews the group supervision literature in counselor training from 1960 to 1983. Included only those articles pertaining to supervised groups of counselor trainees participating in individual counseling practica. Descriptions of group supervision include elements of case presentation, didactic information, and interpersonal process. (Author/BH)