This article reports on the professional development of teacher educators within the context of a national project, "Professional Quality of Teacher Educators," where a professional standard and a standards-based procedure of (self-)assessment and professional development have been created and effectively implemented. This project…

Many approaches to standard-setting use item calibration and student score estimation results to structure panelists' tasks. However, this requires collecting standard-setting judgments after the item analysis results are available. The Scoring Guide Alignment approach collects standard-setting judgments during the scoring sessions from teachers…

Current Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP; 2001) standards promote the use of triadic supervision by counselor educators and supervisors. However, conceptual models of triadic supervision do not presently exist in the supervision literature. This article describes the process and structure of 1 model…

Discusses how technical standards are established and how individuals can become part of the process. A list of some of the major standards-setting organizations is included. (JN)

In judgmental standard setting experiments, it may be difficult to specify subjective probabilities that adequately take the properties of the items into account. As a result, these probabilities are not consistent with each other in the sense that they do not refer to the same borderline level of performance. Methods to check standard setting…

This paper presents the background of the development of the International Standard Bibliographic Description for Serials and Other Continuing Resources, or ISBD(CR). Discussion includes: formation of a working group in 1997 to look at the existing ISBD and objectives of the project; the first official meeting of the working group in August 1998…

The Technology Costing Methodology (TCM) project developed and validated a generally agreed upon set of principles and practices for the costing of distributed/distance learning (DDL) courses. This article describes the TCM project, illustrates the application of the costing methodology (including capital costs), and concludes with a demonstration…

Discusses an assessment survey questionnaire administered to randomly selected sociology departments (n=150) regarding the level of development of their departmental statements of purpose, goals, and objectives among other questions. Reports that two thirds of the 70 respondents have a departmental statement of purpose, but less than half have…

States that government accounting is the product of mixing together budget-oriented and accounting-oriented voices. Presents a history of governmental accounting including the groups involved. An organization chart describes the current standard-setting structure. Accomplishments that improve reporting operations results are listed. (MLF)

The purpose of this article is to explore the foundations of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium's (ISLLC's) Standards for School Leaders. First, the eight strategies used to develop the Standards are discussed. Second, responses are provided to six broad issues raised by colleagues who have provided critical reviews of the…

Standard-setting research has relied very heavily on certain types of information that, although helpful, may be inadequate for judging the quality of standard-setting results. To increase confidence in standard-setting results, the measurement community must understand far more about the panelists' task and about the factors that influence their…

Standards are often set by what teachers think students should know on the curriculum assigned to each of the grades. However, there are more unintended consequences of setting grade-level standards. Some students enter a grade already exceeding the grade-level standards; others enter a grade without having reached the standards of previous…

Early learning standards are documents that outline expectations for preschool-age children's learning and development. Although states vary in what they call their standards, the documents all describe knowledge, skills, and/or characteristics expected of children before they enter kindergarten. In this article, the authors share what they…

E-learning in the European Higher Education Area has stampeded its way to the foreground of the Quality Assurance (QA) forum, and has become a key issue among quality assurance agencies and institutions in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Because internet-based learning is currently such a relevant topic, there is a dire need for the…

This article describes the system of monitoring district instructional-reform efforts and the influences of the system on teachers and school and district leaders in Duval County, Florida. First, the author offers a brief description of the snapshot system. Second, the study's design, data sources, and analytic methods are presented. Third, the…