The growing dissatisfaction with present approaches to teacher education, the availability of increasingly analytic tools in teacher education, and the demand for greater accountability in education generally have given rise to the concept of performance-based criteria for teacher certification. Central to the question of performance-based…

Three different applications of factor scores lead to three different sets of criteria for optimal estimation procedures. The regression method and the Bartlett method best satisfy the first two sets of criteria, and a generalized Anderson and Rubin procedure is optimal for the third set of criteria. (Author/CTM)

Presents 24 tested appraisal items that discriminate between a high quality and a mediocre performance by a media specialist, and proposes eight tasks--job targets--to accomplish any corrective changes deemed necessary. (CMV)

Describes the development of a 6-step accountability model created to identify Statewide educational goals and to provide some means of measuring performance in relation to those goals. (Author/DN)

A discussion of synthesized behavioral objectives (SYNOB), which is a record or form for communicating a variety of alternatives within a specific behavioral objective. (Author/HB)

With accountability came the rush to develop behavioral descriptions of learning for students and to hold the teachers accountable for results. Now we realize, the author states, that the distinctive behaviors of principals are those that affect the continuing development of teacher competencies. (Editor)

Evaluation of the principal is in great demand in this era of accountability. The author suggests that principals take an offensive position by developing their own evaluative criteria. (Editor)

The design of a nurse practitioner program evaluation should (1) account for program complexity; (2) allow for judgmental and objective data; (3) provide formative data for decision making; (4) be tailored to the individual program; and (5) be relevant and meaningful to the audience. (SK)

A set of criteria is suggested that can be useful as a guide in making decisions about purchases of computers. The three best microcomputers for classroom use are viewed as the Apple, the PET, and the TRS-80. (MP)

Guidelines for selecting good educational software are presented and based on general principles that are relevant to a wide variety of teaching programs, topics, students, and computer systems. (MP)

In the late 1990s, a panel of experts proposed criteria for complicated grief (CG) and found these to have satisfactory operating characteristics. The present study aimed to replicate that finding in 4 groups of mourners divided by cause of loss and time from loss. Data were available from 1,052 bereaved individuals. All had completed the revised…

Caramazza et al. [Caramazza, A., Chialant, D., Capasso, R., & Miceli, G. (2000). Separable processing of consonants and vowels. "Nature," 403(6768), 428-430.] report two patients who exhibit a double dissociation between consonants and vowels in speech production. The patterning of this double dissociation cannot be explained by appealing to…

This paper aims to understand the effects on which criteria and indicators for (education for) sustainable development [(E)SD] are based in terms of knowledge transfer. Therefore, (E)SD criteria and indicators in general are regarded as negotiated and established knowledge, incorporating expectations. As such, this knowledge can be spread…