• DOI:10.1086/439881
• Corpus ID: 143883040

Traits Related to Good and Poor Teaching

@article{Engelhart1936TraitsRT,
  title={Traits Related to Good and Poor Teaching},
  author={Max Dissette Engelhart and Ledyard R. Tucker},
  journal={The School Review},
  year={1936},
  volume={44},
  pages={28 - 33}
}

• M. D. Engelhart, L. Tucker
• Published 1 January 1936
• Education
• The School Review

The identification and the measurement of the unitary traits constituting the basic factors in success in teaching should promote the construction of much more adequate instruments for use in the selection or guidance of teachers than any now existing. Multiple-factor analysis is recommended as the technique to be used. Preliminary research is needed, however, if application of the complex factor-analysis technique is to prove effective. The efficiency of any mathematical or statistical procedure is conditioned by the quality of the data used. At present, application of the factor-analysis technique to the problem of unitary traits, or factors, in teaching success is hazardous, since numerous irrelevant traits are likely to be investigated, with consequent inordinate increase in the amount of calculation required. The present study is an effort to identify traits worthy of further investigation. An attempt is made to indicate something of the relative importance of these traits and of the effectiveness of one means of collecting data concerning them. The following persons prepared lists of traits which they considered significant factors in teaching success: Frank E. Baker, president of State Teachers College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; William S. Gray, professor of education at the University of Chicago; Uel W. Lamkin, president of the Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, Maryville, Missouri; Butler Laughlin, president of the Chicago Normal College, Chicago, Illinois; W. P. Morgan, president of the Western Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois; and Ralph Noyer, dean of the Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana.'