A laboratory simulation was conducted to assess teacher selection decision making from the perspective of teachers. Results indicate that personality characteristics of interviewers influence decisions made by applicants. Implications are discussed. (MT)

Preemployment responses on commercial interview protocol purported to predict future teacher performance are assessed relative to postemployment ratings of principals and to behavioral actions of newly hired teachers. Results indicate that a percentage of the systematic variance associated with postemployment performance is accounted for by…

In a simulated teacher selection experiment, 44 school administrators were randomly assigned as interviewers to dyad or panel interview situations, along with 66 teachers as either interviewees or panel interviewers. Administrators conducting dyad interviews had different evaluations of interviewee employability and interview performance than did…

Studied the effects of evaluator gender, applicant gender, and gender of the reference source on the screening of applicants for assistant-principal positions. Responses of 150 high school principals suggest that hypothetical female candidates were evaluated more highly than male applicants and were more likely to be interviewed. (SLD)

Results are reported from an experimental study in which 114 teachers' reactions to recruitment interviews were analyzed. The reactions of teachers were influenced more by the nonpecuniary aspects of the work environment than by either the pecuniary aspects or the work requirements and expectations. (IAH)

Hypothetical teacher candidates were created, some of whom were depicted as having an acknowledged disability, others having no acknowledged disability and all varied with respect to chronological age. A national random sample of public school principals evaluated the teacher candidates as if screening for a vacant position within their school…