Recommendation quality and placement success: A study of the relation between an estimate of the quality of written recommendations and success in securing certain types of teaching positions.

Chapter V: Local Selection, Placement, and Administrative Relations

“…This inventory was developed by studying the responses of defined criterion groups of teachers to a large number of opinion-type items. Harrington (24) reported a detailed study of the relation between estimated quality of written recommendations and the success of teachers in securing positions.…”