ABSTRACT
This chapter offers guidance in deciding what should be the major focuses of an educational specialist's job and in designing performance standards that accurately reflect meaningful and quality work. The foundation for an effective evaluation system for educational specialists-in fact, for any performance evaluation system-is the identification of well-defined job performance standards. The place of developing performance standards within the overall framework of the Goals and Roles Evaluation Model. Domains provide the general framework for describing major aspects of the work of educators. Basically, domains are categories of the educator's performance standards that is job responsibilities or duties, and serve as logical clusters for those performance standards. Performance indicators are used in the Goals and Roles Evaluation Model to do just what the term implies-indicate-in observable behaviors, the types and quality of performance associated with performance standards. An early step in designing or customizing a unified performance evaluation system is to reach consensus regarding terminology.
