Judgment Confidence and Judgment Accuracy of Teachers in Judging Self-Concepts of Students

• Published in: The Journal of educational research (Washington, D.C.) Vol. 106; no. 1; pp. 64 - 76
• Main Authors: Praetorius, Anna-Katharina, Berner, Valérie-Danielle, Zeinz, Horst, Scheunpflug, Annette, Dresel, Markus
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bloomington Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.2013; Routledge; Taylor & Francis Inc
• Subjects: Accuracy; Adaptation; Confidence; Correlation; diagnostic competence; Elementary School Students; Foreign Countries; German language; Germany; Judgment; judgment accuracy; judgment confidence; Likert Scales; Mathematics; Mathematics Education; Mathematics Skills; Measures (Individuals); Program for International Student Assessment; Regression (Statistics); Secondary School Students; Self Concept; Self esteem; Student Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Student Evaluation; Students; teacher; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Characteristics; Teachers; Teaching Methods; Verbal Ability; Germany

Accurate teacher judgments of student characteristics are considered to be important prerequisites for adaptive instruction. A theoretically important condition for putting these judgments into operation is judgment confidence. Using a German sample of 96 teachers and 1,388 students, the authors exa...