The value of the photograph in the selection of teachers

Abstract

Judgments on sets of photographs of teachers by 148 persons (superintendents, secretaries of school boards and placement bureaus) show agreement when taken as a whole, but wide divergence between individual judges, which in no case provides an evaluation with any factual basis other than a general idea of the teacher's appearance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)