Pedagogical Prognosis: Predicting the Success of Prospective Teachers (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Grover Thomas Somers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0260809802 ISBN 13: 9780260809803

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

This investigation into the prediction of achievement in teaching, both in training school and in the field, was conducted at the State Normal School for Women, Farmville, Virginia, during the session of 1919-20. The author utilizes the results to determine, and advise on, the possibility of selecting teacher-training recruits on the basis of available data during the pre-training or early training period. To this end, the author collected past records, measured present abilities and worth, and followed each individual’s performance as a student in school and as a teacher outside the first year. The author included traits that were considered important and measurable: intellectual ability, industry, scholarship, tact, sympathy, sincerity, optimism, and personal appearance. Four tests, an omnibus test, a range of information test, and two language completion tests, were used to assess the intellectual ability of the participants. Teachers’ estimates were used to assess the personality traits. The study found that between the personality traits and the school marks there is a high degree of correlation that does not exist between test scores and personality traits. In general, this book discusses the possibility of predicting student and teacher success in their respective roles based on abilities and character, aptitude and attitude, and previous school records. Traits to Be Measured, Means of Measuring the Traits, Locating the Subjects, The Data, Relationship of the Data, Forecasting Achievement, Disposition of Extreme Cases, and Conclusions are the major areas of examination.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0260809802
• ISBN 13: 9780260809803
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 141