Evaluations

[zebraman]

We have tried a number of things. The most effective way so far seems to be to hire a group of independent evaluators (former officials who have state-wide respect among referees) and paid them to give written evaluations to our officials. It's EXPENSIVE so we can only afford to do it every few years, but worth it. I felt as if I received input even more beneficial than what I got at camp (by the way, many of our evaluators work camps too) because it was in "real" game settings and I never knew they were there so I wasn't trying to ref for observers.

One thing about getting observed by several independents is that you tend to believe the feedback when you see the same thing mentioned by each of them. :-)

Z