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ABSTRACT-The many issues confronting teacher evaluation can be consolidated into three general questions: (1) Who is responsible for evaluating teachers? e4 What evaluation instrument will be relevant and valid for the purposes intended? e4 What conditions are present when dealing with the human relation difficultids inherent in the evaluation-process? The-problems discussed represent general areas of dissonance in the field of teacher evaluation and are by no Beans inclusive of.all concerns in this area. The purpose of the discussion is to introduce the reader to certain controversial issues and to specify how these issues affect the role of the principal. No attempt is made to provide "cookbook " answers to the issues raised, as none appear to exist. (luthor/IRT) Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC takes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, iteas of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions rem makes available * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. * (L,