Educational Administration & Supervision (Volume 7) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1921. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Volume VII JANUARY, 1921 -: *"-, . Number I * " EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION. Including Teacher Training Uniform Standards for Judging Teachers in South Dakota Wiujam A. Cook University of South Dakota THE custom of evaluating the services of teachers by means of some sort of score card, was instituted in Milwaukee in 1896. After 1900 the practice entered other city systems. Early schemes were naturally somewhat simple, but the work of Elliott, Boyce, and Clapp, begun about ten years ago, has given us more highly complicated devices, and has also aimed to place the selection and weighting of criteria on a more nearly scientific basis. The method of determining such matters varies, but the authority is mass judgment of experts, following the precedent set in establishing the Thorndike Penmanship Scale, and most of the scales for the measurement of English composition. The investigator decides upon a list of assumed qualities of merit in teachers, and asks supervisors to rank or weight those qualities according to importance. Another method has been to ask supervisors to select the dominant traits of their most successful teachers; relative weight of traits would then be a summary of these opinions. Studies in this field are continuing, and are likely to continue for some time. Much has been written about it, the score card for teachers is noc yet in general use. In 1914 Boyce discovered that it was still the almost unanimous practice to rely on the general unanalyzed judgment of some officer. In 1916, eleven of the thirty-two largest cities in the country used no rating form, and not over ten had zxy highly organized scheme. As an aid to the present report, superintendents in a hundred cities of...