MINUTES

Thirty-Second Annual Meeting

The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation

NEA Headquarters - Washington, DC

September 21-23, 2006

Attendees: Joint Committee members

Richard Barbacane (NAESP; substitute)

Carrie Billy (AIHEC)

Rolf Blank (CCSSO)

Jeffery Braden (APA)

Flora Caruthers (NLPES)

James Cullen (CES)

Paula Egelson (CREATE)

Segun Eubanks (NEA)

Arlen Gullickson, Chair (at large)

Stephan Henry (AERA)

Elmima Johnson (AEA)

Patricia McDivitt (AACE)

Terri Duggan Schwartzbeck (AASA)

Lyn Shulha (CSSE)

William Strein (NASP)

Donald Yarbrough (NCME)

Guests

Jeffrey Berger, Validation Panel member

Barbara Howard, Chair, task force revising The Personnel Evaluation Standards

Robert Rodosky, Validation Panel chair

Staff

Sally Veeder

The meeting was opened by Arlen Gullickson (chair) at 1:15 p.m. on Thursday, September 21. Sally Veeder served as secretary. The meeting continued through Friday, September 22, and Saturday, September 23.

The 2005 minutes were read and approved. The main motions are listed below:

Status of Motions From September 21-23, 2006, Meeting Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation
Item	Action	Motion/Action
1	No further action required	Approve the agenda. (Shulha: passed)
2	No further action required	Accept the National Association of School Psychologists as an acting member of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. (Henry: passed)
3	No further action required	Approve the minutes of the September 2005 meeting. (Yarbrough: passed)
4	No further action required	Approve the financial report. (Caruthers: passed)
5	No further action required	Move that next year’s annual meeting be held on September 27-29, 2007, so that it doesn’t conflict with Yom Kippur. (Johnson: passed)
6	No further action required	At its request, remove the National School Boards Association as a sponsoring organization and add it as a cooperating organization. (Yarbrough: passed)
7	JCSEE staff to make changes	Clarify in the Operating Procedures that the term for serving as chair, vice-chair, and on the Executive Committee (including current members) is 3 years. (Blank: passed)
8	No further action required	Nominate Flora Caruthers to serve on the Executive Committee. (Strein: passed)
9	No further action required	Nominate Paula Egelson to continue her service on the Executive Committee. (Strein: passed)
10	JCSEE staff to develop certificate	Move that a certificate of appreciation be extended to Edith Beatty for her outstanding service to the Joint Committee for more than ten years (Yarbrough: passed)
11	No further action required	Move that suggested changes to Sections 4.2.3.2 (Vice-Chair: Duties and Responsibilities) and 4.2.3.3 (Executive Committee: Size and Composition) be made to the Operating Procedures. (Blank: passed)
12	No further action required	Move that Section 4.2.2.7 (Visiting Scholars, Fellows, Associates, and Interns) be accepted as changed in the Operating Procedures. (Shulha: passed)
13	No further action required	Move that 9 individuals (Jeff Grann, Edith Gummer, Rodney Hopson, Barbara Howard, Don Klinger, Todd Rogers, Jack Sanders, Neil Vadeboncoeur, Elaine Van Melle) working on JCSEE task forces and committees be accepted as associate members of the Joint Committee. (Shulha: passed)
14	JCSEE members to obtain input and send to Barbara Howard	Move that each JCSEE member obtain additional input from the field regarding the revised Personnel Evaluation Standards. This input is to be received and sent to Barbara Howard within the 45-day review period. (Blank: passed)
15	Program Evaluation Standards Task Force to move ahead to collect reviews	Move that the Joint Committee give the Program Evaluation Standards Task Force permission to go forward with collecting national and international review information on the first draft of the revised program evaluation standards. (Yarbrough: passed)

The meeting adjourned at 1:30 p.m.