Describes Competency Analysis for Trainers (CAT), an instrument that can be used as a basis to describe a trainer's strengths, abilities, and knowledge areas. Subgests CAT as an alternative to traditional certification. (JOW)

Questionnaires completed by 50 states and the District of Columbia revealed that many teachers currently working with handicapped preschoolers are specialists in other teaching areas, many states are not developing a specific certificate for this population, and that there is a discrepancy in definitions and criteria from state to state. (CL)

Teachers and professionals (N=190) rated the importance of 55 competencies for teachers of hearing-impaired students. The ratings were analyzed with a nonparametric analysis of variance. The findings presented evidence of the need to modify the practice of providing the same certification for all teachers of hearing-impaired students. (Author)

Describes the 1983 law that provides for registration of practicing counselors in North Carolina. Explains that registration informs the public by identifying persons who have met minimum qualifications, but allows others to continue practicing without meeting such requirements. (LLL)

Thirteen states' certification requirements for teachers of the gifted are described and two models advocated by the National Association for Gifted Children and The Association for the Gifted (for certification of teachers of the gifted and teachers of the fine and performing arts) are described (CL)

The Program Administrator's Consortium in the state of Washington is presented as the best hope for certifying administrators in the area of learning resources. (MS)

This paper reviews some of the literature related to evaluator certification programs and expresses a concern over the unilateral implementation of such a program by an evaluation organization like the American Evaluation Association. Such a move could lower the economic incentives that evaluators from developing countries would have to join their…

Cybercounseling is defined as the practice of professional counseling and information delivery that occurs when client(s) and counselor(s) are in separate or remote locations and utilize electronic means to communicate over the Internet. One of the counseling profession's main concerns will be unlicensed persons promoting themselves as competent…

Advocates allowing credit for experience in the business world to candidates for teacher certification. (MU)

Considers the legal and social implications of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Red Lion case declaring the FCC's fairness doctrine and its personal attack rules constitutional. Article based on address before the Radio Television News Directors Association Convention in Detroit, September, 1969. (LS)

Chicago's experience in developing a new certification process for principals is explained in this article. (Editor)

This article surveys certification requirements of the various states in regard to shorthand teachers. (JS)

The Certificate in Data Education (Basic) examination is designed to certify that successful candidates are academically proficient in those principles and concepts of automation, computing, and data processing (including social and user implications) which are usually taught in basic introductory courses at the college or university level. (CK)