Description of the Child Development Associate (CDA) program is provided in terms of goals, characteristics, and training procedures, as well as future directions. (MP)

The article examines a competency-based objectives system for evaluating the student teaching experience for majors in speech-language pathology and audiology programs. It is composed of 89 competencies which cover the broad range of knowledge, skill, and value objectives that a student is likely to experience during student teaching. (Author/SW)

In a project to identify and verify professional competencies for beginning industrial education teachers, researchers found a 173-item questionnaire unwieldy. Using multiple-matrix sampling, they distributed subsets of items to respondents, resulting in adequate returns as well as duplication, postage, and time savings. (SK)

The article describes the Responsive Teacher Program at the University of Vermont, a competency based undergraduate teacher education program designed to prepare regular educators for mainstreaming handicapped children. (DB)

The authors outline a number of problems that educators encounter in competency based teacher education development, including the issue of generic v cross categorical training, and time and cost-effectiveness. The Project SERVE training model for teachers of the multiply handicapped, visually impaired is summarized to illustrate the functionality…

Describes procedures used in developing a course designed to provide competency-based training for future reading supervisors. Lists competencies the course was designed to teach, tells how settings were located in which students could develop and demonstrate competencies, and briefly describes the course format and content. (GT)

Thirty colleges and universities and 70 principals and teachers in Colorado were surveyed to comment on state certification issues and to rate competency areas as to their respective value in training teachers of gifted and talented children. (PHR)

Results of a survey of teacher education institutions with competency based teacher education programs is presented. Eleven validated problems encountered in planning and developing such programs are examined and implications are discussed. (JMF)

An effective competency based teacher education instructional system should be able to determine the competencies necessary for teacher effectiveness, design reliable assessment instruments, and gear instruction to individual student capabilities. (JN)

Reports on a study that was designed to generate insights into the effects of traditional and competency-based reading teacher education so that the relationships between the two might be better understood. (FL)

It is in the best interest of both educators and the public that a stringent, valid, and rigorous assessment of individual competencies be associated with the granting to individuals of the authority to teach. (JD)

Although competency-based teacher education (CBTE) materials are often instrumental in teacher training and improvement, the low availability of the materials, their complexity, and lack of evaluation data can prove serious impediments to widespread use of CBTE. (LH)

A cumulative special education teacher training model is described which purports to promote retention and transfer of acquired competencies from semester to semester and to teach preservice teachers in development stages that mirror the ways they will be teaching children. (Author/CL)

In answering questions regarding restrictiveness, quality, autonomy, and "fadism" in relation to competency based instruction, the author asserts that much criticism is based on the desire of entrenched educators to retain a shameful status quo. (MB)