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Measuring a Teacher's Ability to Teach

California Agriculture Experiment Station

Abstract

The wording of the subject but recently assigned to the writer is such as to suggest a technical treatment that will not be attempted. Present ideals of efficiency are responsible for the setting up of measures of value for every kind of activity and result of effort—values that can be added and subtracted, multiplied and divided, reduced to percentages, plotted and graphed, and visualized until one is led to wonder sometimes if the cubist artist and the scientist have not found a common medium of self-expression.

There will be no attempt to formulate definite expressions of values nor to present any set of conclusions. Rather, the aim will be to suggest points of view not commonly taken these days in considering the duties and qualifications of the teachers in our agricultural colleges.

In a recent article Dean Eugene Davenport takes the position that, in order to qualify as a teacher of agriculture, one should not only have had a farm experience, but should have a deep-seated interest in and love for rural life.