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This chapter examines research relating to the selection of teachers into particular teaching positions, and their retention after obtaining a teaching position. Only studies involving a measure of teaching effectiveness as a dependent variable are included. Two lines of research have produced studies that meet this criterion. Firstly, teacher selection research that has focused on 'selection-work success', and secondly, teacher effectiveness research that has focused on 'process-product' studies. A proposed framework for viewing research on teacher selection is central to the chapter. The framework grew out of the research reviewed and serves to focus the discussion on the conceptual and methodological problems that beset research on teacher selection.
Del Schalock (Mon,) studied this question.