Evaluating Professional Support Personnel in Education

Demands for accountability in schools have led to increasingly rigorous evaluations of teachers and administrators. But to keep a school running at its most efficient level involves having the best people on your staff - and not only teachers. This volume fills a major gap in the evaluation literature by offering the first systematic approach that enables administrators and evaluators to assess more effectively the performance of non-teaching school support personnel such as school counsellors, psychologists, nurses, social workers and librarians. By synthesizing current evaluation theory, research findings, practical experience and legal considerations, the authors develop a model, the PSP (Professional Support Personnel), for administrators and educators assessing the performance of support staff. They provide role definitions, discuss legal concerns and demonstrate the generalizability of the process of evaluation to the assessment of non-teaching members of a school. Geared for administrators responsible for teacher evaluations, supervisors and evaluators of social/human service agencies as well as professional support personnel, this timely book will also benefit students and scholars of evaluation/research methods, education, psychology, counselling, social work and sociology.Stronge, James H. is the author of 'Evaluating Professional Support Personnel in Education' with ISBN 9780608097817 and ISBN 0608097810.