Certification for exercise program instructors is a growing trend, but there are not consistent standards. The pros and cons of several certification programs are described. (DF)

Discusses problems in teacher certification, tenure, and retirement benefits that teachers encounter when they relocate to other states. (MD)

A new and comprehensive Kansas certification plan provides for the certification of four media specialties: (1) District Media Director, (2) Secondary School Media Specialist, (3) Elementary School Media Specialist, and (4) K-12 School Media Specialist. (Author/ER)

Questions and answers following an informal talk on licensure made by Frank P. Grad at the National Office of the American Occupational Therapy Association, 9/26/73. (Editor)

Excerpts from an informal talk on licensing made at the National Office of the American Occupational Therapy Association. (Editors/JA)

The author argues for mandatory and immediate certification requirements for audiovisual coordinators and specialists in all states. (AK)

Criteria for teacher accreditation are discussed. (CK)

Claims need for uniformity in counselor licensure is apparent. Presents model legislation for licensed professional counselors, along with a rationale for the content of this legislation. (Author/ABL)

Describes the Digital Signature Project that was developed in Austria to establish an infrastructure for applying smart card-based digital signatures in banking and electronic-commerce applications. Discusses the need to conform to international standards, an international certification infrastructure, and security features for a public directory…

Studied the perceptions of evaluation as a profession of 313 evaluators, of whom almost 64% were practitioners and about 36% academics. Differences in the degree of professionalism experienced are measured based on professional association, professional activities, training, licensure, definition of work, autonomy, and identity. Overall,…

This paper describes an empirical evaluation of a Bayesian procedure for equating scores on test forms taken by small numbers of examinees, using collateral information from the equating of other test forms. In this procedure, a separate Bayesian estimate is derived for the equated score at each raw-score level, making it unnecessary to specify a…

Will reporting subscores provide any additional information than the total score? Is there a method that can be used to provide more trustworthy subscores than observed subscores? These 2 questions are addressed in this study. To answer the 2nd question, 2 subscore estimation methods (i.e., subscore estimated from the observed total score or…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of an Illinois metropolitan program that prepares teachers for administrative and supervisory positions in schools by analyzing, over a 10-year period, its employment outcomes. Overall, from 1995 to 2005, 503 students graduated from the program, 451 of whom with Illinois principal…