A significant development during the past fifteen years is the attention accorded research by professional organizations in business education. The coordination of effort and encouragement provided by these groups of research-minded people appear most valuable. In 1951 Delta Pi Epsilon, the United Business Education Association, and the National Association of Business Teacher Training Institution s joined in organizing a Research Foundation. One important contribution has been the study of needed research in business education (69).
In 1952 Delta Pi Epsilon began its research abstract series. This series, published annually in cooperation with other professional o0rganionts, abstracts the more important studies (26). These abstracts prove especially helpful to the research worker. The Central Region Group of Supervisors and Teacher Trainers of Distributive Education formed a research committee in 1956 and began several statewide studies. The Joint Committee on Coordination and Integration of Research in Business Education initiated a series of efforts aimed at disseminating results of research in a form usable by classroom teachers, a most necessary and previously neglected step in the
In an attempt to discover preservice factors relating to business teachers' effectiveness, Polson (58) studied 112 teachers, all of whom had been graduated from the same university within a five-year period. Out of a total of 290 statistical tests for significance of relationship, the only factor found to relate reliably to over-all effectiveness of teachers was that of persuasive interest as revealed by scores on the Kuder Preference Record.
Tate (66) obtained job analyses of stenographic positions and found that frequency patterns for some duties were similar regardless of office size while other patterns were dissimilar.
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