The Prediction of Teaching Success

Abstract

The criterion for any professional school is the successful future participation of its students in the profession with which the school is concerned. For a teacher-training institution, the criterion is teaching success after graduation. It is the purpose here to discuss briefly three methods for the determination of this criterion through the use of tools and materials easily avail able in any typical situation. The state must know?and the efficient state normal-school administrator must find out for the state?what value as teachers the groups found in its teacher-training institutions have. In addition to this every state normal-school administrator must know what value each individual in the teacher-training group has. These two types of facts may be determined for a teacher training group and for any individual in the group before the state has spent much in the way of money, time, and human energy. It is unnecessary to point to the intrinsic value of such a procedure.