Evaluating the chief school administrator's performance is one of the most important responsibilities of a board of education. In New Jersey, established guidelines for board evaluations of superintendents range from legal to procedural in the attempt to meet school district goals and objectives and to assess whether the superintendency fulfilled the responsibilities and accomplished the board's objectives to its satisfaction. This approach to superintendent evaluation includes, first, school board self-evaluations in order to assess the success of the governance/management relationship and, second, demonstration of the superintendent's executive skills through documents that reflect a clear, concise, appropriate, easily measured "summary of ratings" of superintendent's performance. The final part of the New Jersey evaluation process, measuring a superintendent's progress toward district goals and objectives, requires the following: (1) listing objectives as written statements; (2) setting target dates for stages and steps in the evaluative process; (3) developing action plans for each objective; (4) monitoring progress during the school year; and (5) evaluating the results to judge staff and program effectiveness for which the superintendent is ultimately responsible, and by which an annual summary conference will provide a summative evaluation. (JAM)