Teacher Personnel: A Brief Evaluation of the Research Reviewed.

This article presents a brief evaluation of the research reviewed on teacher personnel. As of the moment, the recent theoretical advances concerning the assessment of teacher behavior and instruction hold tremendous promise for numerous imaginative and creative contributions to a science of education during the next several years. In most of the other problem areas of teacher personnel, it may be expected that large numbers of survey-research studies will continue to be made, although it can be hoped that theoretical considerations will eventually assume some degree of importance. A fundamental weakness of many investigations concerned with legal, economic and related demographic problem has been neglect of what the aims and purposes of American Educations really are. Value-oriented hypotheses formulated with the aid of educational philosophers and historians, psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists could do much to furnish a social framework within which status studies could be made increasingly meaningful.